Avid vs FCP

[Michael Hancock]

Well, it’s obvious which program you prefer. Quick question though, is the Mac you’re running Avid approved and up to spec? What version of Avid are you running, and is it installed on the same machine as FCP? What other programs were running while you were doing your comparison?

Also, many of the things you’re complaining about in the Avid can be fixed quite easily by memorizing the shortcuts or changing your settings. I’ll give FCP credit, there are some things that it offers that smoke the Avid, but there are many things Avid still has on FCP.

Mike.

[Anonymous]

Jeff,
only 4 years as a avid editor? Looks like you have a problem with your computer. I have none of those problems and I work on about 6 different avids.

What’s you point. Avid is not going away. For myself, I have edited on Avid when there was only AVR 1,2, or 3, and was only on a mac, beta tested the newscutter, watched the move from mac to pc. now some 20 years later, I still edit on both apple and pc avids, newcutters, composers, and own an avid express pro w/ mojo on a mac. So again what is you point. 🙂

I have no problem with you liking FCP, to each their own. This is an Avid form.

[Tae]

Looks like you should take an avid class.

Avid is NEVER that slow for me. And a few of those FCP clips are sped up. You’re not fooling anyone.

[William Busby]

bada bing, bada boom!… oh yea… & BAM! oyeee…. what a pointless post, other than doing a fine job of not showing how much he doesn’t know. :-\

[William Busby]

damn! I meant “…doing a fine job OF showing how much he doesn’t know.” obviously 🙂

[William Busby]

Fighting boredom, waiting on a render, I found this.

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=45&postid=420767&archive=T

interesting… well a bit anyway 🙂

Bill

[Moody Glasgow]

Caught him red handed!

moody glasgow
smoke artist

[Joseph Mehr]

Mama Mia !!!! What a life !!!!

[Tristan Tumble]

i agree with some of the points, why cant we zoom while avid plays….or scroll ahead on the timeline, but other then that,everything else seems pointless.

if you click on an avid bin once, it opens top left, if you double click it goes to wherever you want it to.

also, i know prem pro conforms all audio when you dig, wich takes up alot of hard drive space, but when opening waveforms its fast, does FCP do that too? maybe thats why you got waveforms so fast, avid dostn do that, so its slower on building it.

anyway, this fcp vs. avid thing is old news, just edit something.

[Al J. marschke]

[tristan tumble] “anyway, this fcp vs. avid thing is old news, just edit something.”

I often check out other forums for editing beacuse I’m considering a new system. I’m on a media 100 844 and xs systems. Having said that- I’ve often wondered if other professions often argue over their tools like some video editors do. Better yet if carpenters, for example, are ever hired because of the brand of tools they use. When you have your kitchen remodeled do you ask what kind of table saw they use or do you hire them from samples of their work, referrals and service attributes? What is it about some editors that feel like they need reassurance that what tools they are using are the best?

It’s all in the reel. You can’t run from that.
Just passing through.

Al J. Marschke
BluMars Media
Pittsburgh, PA