Like the past Clip DVD magazine issues, issue 3 is no other than amazing. The Clip video magazine always seeks to stand out in some way, this time both with a great video, but also with a creative custom-made casing, and a little present.

Fabrice Guyont and his fellow frenchmen are skaters that we seldom hear of around in Europe. It was only because of the promising words of Michael Thyrring who had been visiting him in France that I knew that something good and spectacular was to be expected from him. His profile features a long intro with Fabrice making fun of himself and his popstar mentality. Enjoying to watch the first time, but a fast forward section after the second time.

Last time I saw a Jochen Smuda section was in Be-mag's first video, Visual Symphony. At that time I thought that it was Jochen's section that came the film to rescue. Clip 3 does not need a rescue, but Jochen's section is again unique and inspiring to watch. Jochen Smuda has got what makes a skater great to look at: he can go big, but at the same time he has a great attention to detail. His creativeness combined with speed and hammers makes a great show.

In general, the DVD is very well edited. One thing that bugs me though is that the film wasn't edited by just one person, but several guest editors. This creates a feeling that each section isn't really connected, but just a series of sections put in a random order. This has to be the only minus about the film though – it was hard to find!

The level of graphic design, attention to detail, and the sense of quality you get from using Clip 3 is much larger than any other inline DVD products that has been put out to date. I say "using Clip 3" instead of "watching Clip 3", as it is really an all-around and complete pleasure to both unpack the plastic from the cover to find the microfiber cloth to wipe your lens, to opening the cover to find the cardboard figures popping up, to using the DVD menu, and finally to enjoying the video itself.

This is a must have!