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Larry Jordan
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Perhaps you should give the link it’s own thread? It might get missed in a thread about Larry Jordan
Steve Connor
“FCPX Agitator”
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Smart tool is great and I’d be 10% Avid right now if it wasn’t for the limited audio tracks. Just can’t understand why Avid has never improved this? Since I do a lot of animation and sound design as I cut I need more than 16 tracks or 8 stereo pairs – bums me out. No I don’t want to work with mix downs…
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
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Ah David I was just poking fun at your new job, and trying to make a funny Family Guy reference at the same time.
It’s an awesome deal. And I haven’t committed to my next editing system yet either. I demoed Avid 5.5 and was wowed by the AMA in that. I hear 6 is so much better. I’m really hoping to get Premiere working, and it sounds like some of the corporate clients are looking at FCPX for at least some things. It’s worth $300 just for the keyer. Right now I’m just playing with it as I am Premiere CS5. They both freeze or crash so often that neither has my interest really. But I already have Premiere in my Adobe bundle so if I can make it work when CS6 comes out that’d be great because I do a lot of AE and the integration would be nice. Avid would be nice too. It’s the cost really. And if the corporations I’m working with aren’t using it in their in house suites, then there’s no need.
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[Lance Bachelder] “if it wasn’t for the limited audio tracks. Just can’t understand why Avid has never improved this? Since I do a lot of animation and sound design as I cut I need more than 16 tracks or 8 stereo pairs – bums me out. No I don’t want to work with mix downs…”
Agreed. That’s definitely one on my current sore points. If I’m delicate, I can live with it. But I’m hoping it is a limitation they will get over relatively soon. As to Smart Tool, you are right–it’s fab. And, man, 6 is a whole lot better than 2.8, which is about where I left it. And, I think I just did not appreciate the rest of the trimming tools at the time. Maybe I’m just a more mature editor now, but I really am enjoying the keyboard trimming. No skimmer, of course; but you can’t have everything.
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Personally what I truly appreciate is when I click on a tutorial and it says “Trimming and Editing Techniques” that the first line of the video is “Ok, here is the trim tool.”
Instead I watched about 3 minutes of a freeze frame while I got an entire dissertation on the background, staff, upcoming events, sponsors, purpose of the site, nature of the link I clicked on, how in-depth it would be, and a brief history of Avid.
Ok not quite that bad, but these kinds of videos have to stop with the boated intros…it’s a student demo reel mistake.
I friggin know why I’m there. Get to it or I’m gone.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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[Steve Connor] “Perhaps you should give the link it’s own thread? It might get missed in a thread about Larry Jordan”
Good idea. I will do that Steve. I’m just concerned about anyone thinking or suggesting that I’m now a mercenary. But hopefully, telling everyone about our free stuff won’t get anyone upset.
David Roth Weiss
ProMax Systems
Burbank
DRW@ProMax.com
http://www.ProMax.com
Sales | Integration | SupportDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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[Lance Bachelder] “Smart tool is great”
It’s so funny to hear how many die hard AVID editors really hate it though.
I worked an AVID event earlier this week in Salt Lake that had all kinds of editors, from long-term AVID users, to FCP users looking at making the switch. The FCP users were ogling and ooing and ahing over the Smart Tool, while the old AVID guys were moaning and calling it the Dumb Tool.
It seems the long of tooth AVID guys toggle it on and then forget it’s on, and that causes them to make mistakes. They just love to grouse about it. I was wondering, did no one ever tell them about the undo function?
David Roth Weiss
ProMax Systems
Burbank
DRW@ProMax.com
http://www.ProMax.com
Sales | Integration | SupportDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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[Rich Rubasch] “Instead I watched about 3 minutes of a freeze frame while I got an entire dissertation on the background, staff, upcoming events, sponsors, purpose of the site, nature of the link I clicked on, how in-depth it would be, and a brief history of Avid.”
Actually Rich, after watching a few of the others in the series, I was kind of glad Steve Holyhead took the time to give some perspective on how AVID got where it is today. But, I can understand you want them to get into the meat of things. Once he gets going though, I think Steve really is thorough, and he shows you what you really need to know. Don’t you think?
David Roth Weiss
ProMax Systems
Burbank
DRW@ProMax.com
http://www.ProMax.com
Sales | Integration | SupportDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Well there’s nothing cooler than watching a true Avid pro editing – very little mouse usage at all – they just fly through with keyboard shortcuts etc. That’s not me, I’ve used Avid off and on for years but need my mouse and after so many years with NLE’s like FCP and Vegas I need the Smart Tool for sure.
Lance Bachelder
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[Lance Bachelder] “I need more than 16 tracks or 8 stereo pairs – bums me out”
Just for clarification, Avid MC6 maxes out at 24 tracks. Each track can be mono, stereo, 5.1 and/or 7.1. I haven’t actually tried to edit anything with 24 tracks of 7.1 (192 tracks), but in theory you could. Also worth noting that effects can be both track-based and clip-based, with up to 5 real-time filters per track. It’s not Vegas, but that’s still pretty good compared to older versions of MC.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com
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