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Avid titling vs FCP (Adrenaline with Studio Toolkit)
Can anyone give me advice me on this?
I own a very old XPress-system (De Luxe, Meridien I). I’m in doubt, should I upgrade it to Adrenaline with Avid Studio Toolkit HD, or should I switch to FCP? My problem is not so much the price or getting to learn an entirely new system; it’s the titling.
How does the Avid-titling on Adrenaline with the toolkit compare to FCP? I have no experience with it’s possibilities and workflow.
Upto now I used the title-tool and tried Maraquee. The first is, well let’s not talk about it, and the second is just too slow to use. So I kept my titling simple.
Any help will be greatly appreciated…
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probably avoiding the question, I use adrenaline, but import almost all gfx/titles from ae, it gives you a real workhorse broadcast specific machine, (I think fcp is still trying to be all things for all people), while ae offers almost all the extra bells and whistles you could need.
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Thanks Amheus,
Although I saw wonderful AE-results, I never used it. Might be a good idea though to stick to Avid and get to know this program. How does importing and exporting go? Is the workflow ok? And how is rendering? Do you do this in the background while you go on editing on Avid?
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Get FCP Studio and use Livetype for titles. It is a very cool and easy to use app.
https://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/finalcutpro/livetype.htmlhank
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Hank, I followed your link and Livetype looks very convincing. Decisions decisions… Do you have experience with the Avid Studio Toolkit of titling in AE? I wonder how it compares to Livetype…
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No experience with Avid Studio Toolkit but plenty experience with both Avid and FCP.
I like both apps but I think the FCP Studio package rocks with Motion, LiveType, Soundtrack Pro and
DVD Studio Pro included.
Check this link about Avid vs FCP 2006
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/avid_vs_final_cut_2006.html -
I leave ae renders working in the bkd whilst i cut within avid. Imports and exports are easy, you can use avid codecs to blow out of ae, once you’ve done it once you can save your settings within ae and always use the same template, importing back to avid is drag and drop, the advantage of ae is aprt from just tiles you can use it for allsorts, comping/file transfers/3d etc etc.
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Thanks Hank, lot’s of solid information here.
I’ll sleep over it… hard to decide… -
Thanks Amheus. I think I’ll try FCP for a day or two with a pro, it really sounds nice. Might be time to switch… 🙂
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