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Avid Express Vs Final Cut Pro
Looking to upgrade .I am looking for some general differences between Avid Express Pro and FCP. I am currently using an old Speed Razor system. I will be buying a new computer with upgrade. I posed this question to the FCP Forum and recieved some good information to ponder, but would like to hear what Avid users think.
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The latest podcast from The DV show is all about the differences between these applications. This question is asked A LOT.
I suggest listening to it:
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Hard to say, but it looks like you must tango with Final Cut if you want to work for Al Gore!
“REQUIRED SKILLS
Dazzling creative and conceptual abilities, as well as outstanding writing and producing skills The ability to make FCP, Photoshop, After Effects, and Quicktime get up and dance ” https://www.current.tv/jobs/preditor.htmlAnother excellent Aldorsement for FCP!
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[Shane Ross] “https://www.thedvshow.com/”
The link has a refererence to an article that compares FCP to Avid from 2002! Well outdated since lacks all the major improvements that Apple has made in the last 3 years such as multicamera editing and mutliple audio track import.
Alessandro.
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It will depend on what you’re doing I guess, and what the market wants from you. Avid still has a pretty strong reputation, which can be it’s biggest selling point in some cases – people want to edit their program “on an Avid”.
I haven’t used FCP in a version or two, but it is a capable application.
Personally, as an Avid editor (and I have have considerable time in front of FCP) I can cut much faster in Avid than I can in FCP. Although with more flexability in keyboard on work mode in newer versions of FCP, I may be able to streamline it more these days.
In my neck of the woods there isn’t much demand for FCP editors, we are still a very Avid-centric industry.
I am comfortable with Avid to do everything I need, but FCP has been progressing in leaps and bounds since it started.
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