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FCPX is the best NLE on the market
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[Bill Davis] “it’s simply more fun to use than other NLE programs”
Absolutely agree with this!
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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[Bill Davis] “The code base, top to bottom, is newer.”
I’m not sure what this means. The overall design paradigm is unique for sure, but I doubt that it’s code is newer than let’s say Lightworks for OSX, which is just getting written this year.
It also begs the question – is newer code base a criterion for better? Does this mean if some new company, like Resolve, comes out with a fully operational NLE next year it will automatically be better than the then comparatively arthritic 4 year old code of X? Or better still, using this criterion the X of 3 years ago should be better than today’s version because 3 years ago the code was definitely “newer” in all ways.
Beware the curse of chasing after the new, because everything once new now grows old. (for all you Paul Simon fans.)
[Bill Davis] “The software takes advantage of the latest Apple hardware and OS improvements, brilliantly.”
As compared to Avid, Adobe and Lightworks that work on both OSX and Windows and can take advantage of a much larger set of hardware and software options.
[Bill Davis] “and it’s simply more fun to use than other NLE programs. (Source: people I meet who have switched!)”
Ah yes, the fun criteria. Well there it is, that clinches it. Well done.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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Best NLE without tracks for sure.
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must…resist…temptation…
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Go on, you know you want to!
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I myself really want to give out about avid. so very, very badly.
https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “I myself really want to give out about avid. so very, very badly.”
Go ahead. It’s not like you’re in a glass house working for a company that competes with them or something. You won’t even need to add a 😉 after your comment.
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the hell with it –
I’m in a place for a bit that has vast quantities of avid. seas of it. and avid people. defensive, defensive avid people.
I couldn’t really say much of anything before, but now I have been exposed to the horror.
So fine – there is interplay on isis. that is all super impressive, watch us drag edits out of the isis – that’s all great. maybe we check them back in. Avid is doing all that stuff. Inside a gigantic mountain called avid go away.the point is it’s an entirely locked media scenario you can’t easily get out of. we all likely want to get into and out of the edit all the time, take the footage items in edit process other places or to other people in process – say even if the other person is us. not in bloody interplay world we don’t. It intellectually locks the edit away. It’s an irritating belgium you need a passport for. And it’s a place defended by a class of editors desperate to defend it. it feels dis-likable.
but lo the timeline. Oh that jkl trimming that no one ever seems to use. Where the hell is clip enable disable?
why is there that moronic track level disable that shines down vertically? how well does that work for stacking alternate shots?why does it insist on operating on the cut points? why does it throw you into an over engineered trim tool for the most trivial actions? after stupid keyboard actions to get you into the fabled trim mode? Why cant I simply directly operate slip slide as a selectable tool on the clip as an object nevermind the trim points? Why doesn’t it recognise the clip itself as an extant edit object? (caveat – i don’t feel the smart tools perform this)
why is it a finicky complicated mess?effects – oh effects the insanity. even avid editors get embarrassed here. sometimes they barely know what’s going on. why doesn’t the effect want to apply ? who knows. but there’s a yellow dot there and avid is saying another effect can’t be applied. perhaps it’s the order of effects. maybe you need to step inside the effect. – cue canned laughter at the utter joke that is the avid effects insanity.
but wait – no no – there’s more. if you want to modify the effect, you need to randomly select the effect keyframe icon below the monitor and turn it pink before you move to alter the effect in the effect parameter area. because science. the science of a company producing stupid workflows to protect stupid workflows to produce a car that looks and acts like a hedgehog, for people who desperately need the editing system to act like a hedgehog to newcomers. because guild science.
there is no end to the hilarious kafkauseque games a generation of insane editors have played to produce an editing system that literally points every sign the wrong way, producing a system that would make the word obtuse blush with shame.
avid is a designed assault course of moronic obfuscation. It feels like a british trade union that dreamed what it could really hope to be in the seventies.
https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics
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Bravo. One of your finest rants 🙂
Out of all your “bullet points’, “stepping into” effects is my favorite. It reminds me of “stepping into” something else… Though at least MC can link to external media now. kind of. Anyway, it was groundbreaking at the end of the last century, but it hasn’t changed much since then. That brings comfort to many folks actually. Come to think of it, most NLE’s haven’t changed all that much in the last 20-25 years…
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “avid is a designed assault course of moronic obfuscation.”
Where were you in the early 2000s when I was trying to explain to AVID editors why I was using FCP legacy instead?
Can you notify me whenever you post… oh wait, I use FCPX primarily now.
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