Look whats comming to avid (maybe)

[Chris Conlee]

I don’t know if it’s unproductive. For me I’m definitely referring to Hollywood editing, because that’s where I am, and that’s the work I do for a living. Because of that, I’m an Avid guy, through and through, and I suspect in this tiny arena, Avid will benefit from Apple’s FCP X decisions. I will buy FCP X next month, now that I’m working again and have cash flow. It sounds fun and I think it will be cool for my YouTube videos that I do. Mind you, that’s not meant to be derogatory. If you can make money with this tool then by all means go out and make money with it.

A long time ago I became agnostic about PC vs Mac, and I’m largely agnostic about FCP vs Avid vs Premiere. I own all three and I try to be at least marginally proficient in all, but I consider myself an expert in Avid, which is where I make my bread and butter. They’re just tools, and the good news is they’re all reasonably priced enough that if you have to make a choice because of some corporation’s bad decisions, then it’s not as cataclysmic as it was a decade ago.

Chris

[Derek Andonian]

[Robert Brown]

“Premiere is a long shot but I’m still rooting on Adobe to develop it to something nice and get a big user base.”

Premiere Pro in it’s current form is still a little rough around the edges, but the foundation is solid, even without GPU acceleration (I ugraded my system ram to 18 gigs, and can now play back an AVCHD clip with several color correction filters seamlessly as long as the playback resolution is lowered to half).

I have a feeling CS6 will be a significant upgrade that will be appealing to a lot of people, due to all the feature requests Adobe is receiving from FCP refugees…

“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Derek Andonian]

[Kim krause]

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

So you think Avid was SO INCREDIBLY IMPRESSED with the FCPX interface that they slapped this together in JUST UNDER A MONTH so that they could follow in Apple’s footsteps?

…And Besides, this is nothing like FCPX- there are two viewers, and it has real TRACKS! 😉

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”