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AVID – Why Not?
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Well, kids, it’s late here in LA and tomorrow is a school day. But keep those cards and letters coming…
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Somebody wants to send me a plane ticket – all I need is my laptop and a USB 3 speed mini drive and I’ll be happy to sit at a table with anyone! In fact bring your own project on a Thunderbolf drive and we can play with that. Unless it’s a long flight, I’d even do a turnaround. Just buy me lunch. I actually like editing in X so much I’d do it for recreation! Plus I occasionally like living on the edge! Back in 2012 when I did my live Multicam demo at the LACPUG – 15 minutes pre-demo none of my files were working! Thank heavens Phil Hodgetts and Greg Smith let me leach their hotspot to download fresh files. Then it went off without a hitch! That was the night I got to meet and drink with Iron Man editor Dan Lebental – so I’m always up to meet new people and tempt fate!
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[Bill Davis] “Just buy me lunch.”
Bill, you’re my hero!
Sorry we didn’t get to do lunch/drinks at NAB this year. Maybe the next time you’re in LA…
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[Jeff Markgraf] “But, yes, X requires more mouse than Avid.”
Requires is the wrong word. I haven plugged in a mouse in three years. Not since Apple brought out the multitouch trackpad. I know quite a few editors who have the Apple standalone trackpads on their desktop systems as well.
Bye bye RSI.Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.
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[Bill Davis] ” I haven plugged in a mouse in three years.”
Well, yes, right. I was using “mouse” as a stand in for any non-keyboard device. I use a pen & tablet to avoid the RSI that was beginning to be an issue years ago.
That said, there are a few functions in X that I’d like to see available on the keyboard. But it’s not at the top of my wish list, either.
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Yup.
Well, what I do with AVID, especially after a day of shooting on the CANON C300 for instance. When I come home, I AMA link the lot (which is just a few clicks), set it transcode and I go to have dinner. Sometime at the end of the evening it’s done. I start copying for back-ups and go to bed. The next morning I start cutting.
It’s the luxury of having a set in an office next to home, I guess.
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[James Ewart] “Some editors seem to feel using a mouse slows them down. I’m lucky, I’m never in that much of a hurry but found it more tactile and intuitive using a mouse.”
This may have been true before X, but for me the skimmer changed that.
In editing you do great deal of moving back and forth through footage and the skimmer does that faster than JKL for me or dragging the playhead up and down the timeline.
I work with the mouse in one hand and I have remapped many of my most used keys that are two key options to one key. So I’m just hitting one key most times and skimming.
My only beef is that the skimmer should be in Motion also.
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[Tony West] “In editing you do great deal of moving back and forth through footage and the skimmer does that faster than JKL for me or dragging the playhead up and down the timeline.
I work with the mouse in one hand and I have remapped many of my most used keys that are two key options to one key. So I’m just hitting one key most times and skimming.
My only beef is that the skimmer should be in Motion also.”
+1!
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[Tony West] “This may have been true before X, but for me the skimmer changed that.
In editing you do great deal of moving back and forth through footage and the skimmer does that faster than JKL for me or dragging the playhead up and down the timeline.”Agreed. One of the best selling points for me that keeps suckering me back to using X. 😉
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Hey Mike,
I see you are based in Utrecht. If you know your big client well and he has any questions about upgrading his network or his workflows, tell him he can contact me. My advice is always free, and I think I know reasonably well how to make FCP X run fast as hell on a large shared storage network.
– Ronny
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