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Avid slyly opening up at NAB for those that noticed
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[Lance Bachelder] “newbies heading NAB to check out post products in South Lower would probably assume Avid didn’t even show up”
You mean people too stupid to look at a map or know how an escalator functions? 😉
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And that Avids logo is plastered on every lanyard with you badge 🙂
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[Oliver Peters] “The folks who actually attended the Connect event came away feeling positive about the experience. “
Yes. Having talked to a few of them, I wish I had attended.
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Lol… you said it, not me!
By the way, it was a pleasure meeting you at the AJA booth Oliver.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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I’m not part of that ‘old guard,’ in fact I’m a relatively new Avid user, but it is my NLE of choice. Having said that…
It’s true – all the newer NLEs are slowly chipping away at any Avid advantage. It’s crazy, but true: I was able to download the FCPX trial last month and complete an edit faster than with Avid, despite having no real knowledge how to use it. That was a scary wake-up call. Even still, I continue to push Avid for new features and small optimizations, because I love their trim mode.
Media Composer does indeed feel like a tack-on to ISIS. It needs several functions to make it a better piece of software for independent editors. But that’s the problem: their “base” doesn’t include many editors from this realm. They probably don’t hear much feedback from this point of view.
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[Andy Neil] “I feel that Avid’s reliability is more based on reputation than actual working software. I’m working on it now and I have plenty of reliability issues. As close to as many as I have with X or Premiere. “
Yeah, a couple of months ago I had Media Composer crash during launch the first time it was ever opened on an iMac that had just been unboxed 20 minutes earlier and had basically nothing else installed on it yet. It’s as temperamental as anything else, in my experience.
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[Chris Kenny] “a couple of months ago I had Media Composer crash during launch the first time it was ever opened on an iMac that had just been unboxed 20 minutes earlier and had basically nothing else installed on it yet”
Were you running the version that matched the OS on that iMac? Avid software is temperamental about running on machines that match the qualified specs. iMacs work fine, but you have to make sure it’s the right version.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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[Lance Bachelder] “By the way, it was a pleasure meeting you at the AJA booth Oliver.”
Me, too. It’s always a pleasure to meet folks in person that we get to sort of know online 😉 One of the best parts of NAB.
Cheers,
OliverOliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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[Oliver Peters] “Were you running the version that matched the OS on that iMac? Avid software is temperamental about running on machines that match the qualified specs. iMacs work fine, but you have to make sure it’s the right version.”
Yes, correct version. It launched on the second attempt and hasn’t crashed during launch since. (Plenty of other odd issues, of course.)
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Digital Workflow/Colorist, Nice Dissolve.You should follow me on Twitter here. Or read our blog.
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[Chris Kenny] “It launched on the second attempt and hasn’t crashed during launch since.”
Then that sounds normal for MC and just about every other application. I still have intermittent hard crashes with AE CC, which was never the case with AE CS6.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com
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