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AVID – Why Not?
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What positive tradeoffs? The main gimmicks of FCPX are “metadata” and magnetic timeline. I don’t care about magnetic timeline because that’s a solution to a problem I never had. I’m not messy. “Metadata” in case of FCPX is misnomer. Whatever tags you slap onto your footage in some app becomes metadata only if there is a way to pass those tags to another app.
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[Michael Aranyshev] “I don’t “scan” or “skim.” I watch it. Carefully, many times.”
I do that also while I’m logging it.
Once I know what I want I scan to find it.
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[Michael Aranyshev] “What positive tradeoffs? The main gimmicks of FCPX are “metadata” and magnetic timeline. I don’t care about magnetic timeline because that’s a solution to a problem I never had. I’m not messy. “Metadata” in case of FCPX is misnomer. Whatever tags you slap onto your footage in some app becomes metadata only if there is a way to pass those tags to another app.”
Why so angry Michael?
gimmicks
problems I never had.
messy
misnomer
slap onto…It’s clear from your language that you’re still emotionally hurt by X.
Sorry it’s been so hard on you.
Stick with whatever software makes you feel less angry.
I suspect your blood pressure will thank you.
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I’m not hurt by FCPX. I’m hurt by the general state of professional software. Have you checked Final Draft recently? Disgusting.
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Sounds like with a workflow as complex as yours, you might need a qualified workflow architect?
Everyone I know who does that type of large system tuning is in Amsterdam at the moment, but if you’re having this much productivity grief, why not have your boss give the folks at FCPWorks a call? Sam, Noah or one of the big european facility guys like Ronny Courtens may have some solutions as to why you’re facing so much grief and how to stop some of the pain?
You want to pull the rip chord and go back to AVID – feel free. And if you don’t have a personal choice because it’s a corporate decision, then I feel for you just like I feel for the guys that would prefer to use X but are filling seats in shops that picked Premiere Pro. It’s never comfortable to be using a tool that you feel you are fighting. As to AVID It’s strengths in the traditional collaborative worklows are legend – but editors every day ALSO bitch about that.
Nature of the beast. Editing is personal.
YMMV.
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[Michael Aranyshev] “I’m not hurt by FCPX. I’m hurt by the general state of professional software. Have you checked Final Draft recently? Disgusting.”
Dude. I gave up on Final Draft decades ago when I realized that they only cared about narrative Hollywood scripts and couldn’t even take the time to get a decent 2-column corporate format together.
Their marching orders seemed to be “It’s not a real script unless it’s a MOVIE script!”
Rolled my own “script prep software” using Filemaker Pro and never looked back.
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They’re entirely free to focus on any niche they wish as long as they serve it well. The problem is they don’t. Realizing that changing the paragraph style should be the same shortcut regardless how many characters are typed in the said paragraph doesn’t take dozens of user base polls and huge usability research. It takes some common sense and an attitude that’s different from the usual “Screw you!”
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Well, I don’t find the workflow very complex, myself. I’ve been doing stuff like this for twenty years. So that’s my biggest question mark: why does an advanced, brand new NLE like FCPX have so much trouble with it.
AVID runs faster on external hard discs with half the speed of the Thunderbolts I am now using to get FCPX moving at least.
But I am an independent. I work on both AVID and FCPX (and FCP7 although that one is pretty dead). I’d work on PPro is any client would require that of me. So my biggest client has decided to go full blown with FCPX, using SAN. But the development on that end is so slow (they’re about to implement Yosemite so they can move to FCPX 10.2 with the El Capitan coming out any moment) that we’re not really moving ahead.
Again, one of the advantages of AVID is that it’s downward compatible. It makes no difference in what version I or my clients work on, they all communicate. Would be nice if FCPX could do the same (if not imperative).
So yeah, there are gripes about AVID. But for me it runs fast, project and media exchange is flawless and when I hit my spacebar it plays immediately. Not 2 seconds later. To me that is pure bliss… If I have to chose now (I mainly do bigger projects) AVID all the way.
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[Mike Warmels] ” and when I hit my spacebar it plays immediately. Not 2 seconds later. To me that is pure bliss”
That should improve when your client moves to 10.2
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You won’t believe how much I look forward to that. I keep pushing them to upgrade, but they have to upgrade 10 editing suites and the SAN system… And you don’t want to piss off your client, even though it is costing them more money now. Money I’d rather spend on development and filming, instead of waiting for a beach ball.
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