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Final Cut vs. Avid?
What do most editors use to produce their work? Avid or Final Cut, because I know how to use Avid but not Final Cut Pro. What do most professional use to edit on?
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This question has been asked and answered… a hundred times.
Do your own homework.
Mark
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> What do most professional use to edit on?
These days? Computers.
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Both. This year I have worked at 4 production companies, and two have been FCP and two have been Avid, all broadcast TV shows. But then there are people using Adobe CS3 and CS4 in other aspects of editing as well.
Shane
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The answer to your question will vary depending on location and market segment.
What is your specific criteria for “professionals?” Wedding videographers? Feature film editors? Commerical editors? Newsroom editors?
There are all kinds of editors doing all kinds of work and using all kinds of software. Try narrowing down your question for a more useful answer.
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[Andy Mees] “> What do most professional use to edit on?
These days? Computers.”
Perfect answer Andy and so true!
Professional editors cut on whatever they are assigned to cut on. Avid, FCP, Quantel and a few others in the mix. Knowing either Avid or FCP is pretty much a requirement these days and having a knowledge of one will pretty easily transfer to the other. You’ll just need to learn where all the “buttons” are and adjust your workflow according to the tool.
One caveat I always tell folks. Just because you can operate Final Cut Pro, Avid or any other tool, doesn’t make you a good editor.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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If you want to work easily in any area of the industry, learn both.
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Well said! I agree.
I do not consider myself a “Final Cut Pro Editor”. I am an editor. Throw a completely new NLE at me and I will learn where all the tools are and wield it to my advantage.
That’s my mentality. What I can do with my background and editing skills in a program like iMovie will blow away a novice prosumer editor. In addition I will complete the task in a much shorter time.
I carry that mentality to every piece of software I learn and use. There is an abundance of NLE software out there each with it’s strengths and weaknesses. An intelligent professional editor will seamlessly integrate with that software to complete the job.
To quote the late Bruce Lee, “Be water my friend.”
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.”
-Bruce Lee-Nicholas Bierzonski
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Starlyn
Generaly, and i mean generally, Episodic TV and Prime time is cut on Avid, Feature Films on avid and FCP, and commercials now mostly FCP
however there are many tv shows cut on FCP, and studios are used to avid so a lot of features are still cut on avid.
at least for off line decision making rough cut kinda editing. For finishing its a whole different story.
to get a better perspective, look at trade publications like Post, Millimeter, Shoot. Always articles on who is editing on what, focusing on succes stories, ie high profit.
hope this helps
BTW, you can ask this question six months from now, and it could all be different.
bee eph
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Avid AND Final Cut Pro OR die. Beginning to find this out myself. I’m on the road to shoring up my Avid chops which were once oh so pristine!
Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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