Look whats comming to avid (maybe)

[Mark Bein]

Love the Simpsons type disclaimer:

Committed to the Professional*

*This ist not a commitment

[Chris Kenny]

[Chris Conlee] “All I know is that working in Hollywood for the better part of a decade, I’ve never been on a FCP show, but I’ve been on dozens of Avid shows and features. And I’ve never even heard of somebody doing a show on Premiere.”

And I strongly suspect Avid is defining “pro” along these sorts of lines, to arrive at the 80% figure. So we’ve now got at least three competing definitions:

1) Anyone who gets paid to edit video.
2) Film/TV editors in general.
3) Hollywood editors.

And people just go right on using the term (and building elaborate arguments around it) without specifying which of these they mean. It’s made this whole debate hilariously unproductive.

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[Chris Kenny]

[Chris Harlan] “Now THAT’S wishful thinking on your part. You of course mean FCP7/FCS3.”

Obviously, FCP X not having been released yet at that point. I’ve been typing “FCP X” so much it has become automatic at this point.

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[Chris Conlee]

Actually, it looks a lot like, um, Avid, with flashy new colors. Basically, it looks unchanged, from what I can see in the blurry images.

Chris

[Brian Langeman]

“new avid interface looks alot like fcpx…who’s copying who?”

Since when did FCPX have two viewers? Now that’s just wishful thinking…

[Aindreas Gallagher]

oh would you ever stop – the word professional has meaning.

http://www.ogallchoir.net
promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Matt Callac]

[Aindreas Gallagher] ” oh would you ever stop – the word professional has meaning.”

All words do have a meaning. The meaning the user (of the words) has often is not the same as the meaning the receiver (listener/reader) has for those very same words.

-mattyc

[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Matt Callac] ”
All words do have a meaning. The meaning the user (of the words) has often is not the same as the meaning the receiver (listener/reader) has for those very same words.”

ah gimme a break. A professional is a professional and an amateur is an amateur. there are amateur actors, golfers, tennis players, photographers – I’m three of those four things myself, but for people who are amateur at many things, they will tend to be professional at one thing – the thing that puts bread on their table. I can design in the round, I can still do print design layout in a pinch, I can kern type and prep artwork for print, I can assemble a seasons graphics package for the autumn schedule overhaul, I can knock out pretty good motion design, I can write a good promo script and I can edit – primarily shortform, but I’m working at it. I consider myself professionally competent in these areas.

All this balls about notions of professionalism being old fashioned in this wave of the future baby now, is driving me right up the walls.

It’s total, total bull.

http://www.ogallchoir.net
promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Chris Kenny]

[Dave LaRonde] “In an earlier thread, you had the unmitigated gall to question why broadcasters and post house owners would EVER be upset by Apple’s Dirty Trick. Shame on you for even suggesting such a thing, and thank you for supplying the evidence why they’re angry.”

What “dirty trick” are you referring to?

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[Matt Callac]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “ah gimme a break. A professional is a professional and an amateur is an amateur. there are amateur actors, golfers, tennis players, photographers – I’m three of those four things myself, but for people who are amateur at many things, they will tend to be professional at one thing – the thing that puts bread on their table.”

Take this for example. I’m a skateboarder. I’m not a professional, so YOU might call me an amateur skateboarder, but I would not agree with that as a terminology because to me the term amateur means someone who is making a living skateboarding, but has not been deemed Pro by the company that pays him. So there are meanings for words but everyone has different meanings for those words.

Have a religious discussion with someone who has a faith different from your own and then tell me that words only have one meaning.
-mattyc