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MC 3.0, Avid Fx and Finishing
As a freelance offline editor using Media Composer in Los Angeles, I haven’t run across Avid FX or Boris Red at any of the facilities I’ve worked at. Now that Avid Fx is bundled with MC 3.0, I figure that may start to change as upgrades happen.
Those of you who manage existing installations of multiple MC systems, how do you typically choose to uprgrade? Would you take the cheap uprade with no 3rd party updates, or do you pay extra for BCC 5 and Avid FX?
Is Avid FX also available for the various finishing platforms? Is it common for online rooms to have Avid FX or Red? I know it’s best for a finishing company to have a full range of plugins to handle offlines from various sources, but would that toolset include Avid FX?
I would love to be able to use Avid FX to handle some of those things which are impractical in Composer (such as panning stills bigger than the frame) but simple enough to be hardly worth sending to a graphic artist. Being able to build effects at low res in the offline and have them batch and relink in online would be ideal. Prebuilding sections at 1:1 in the offline bay is often not practical.
How do Avid FX projects travel? Is all the data contained within the sequence or bin, or does a separate project file get sent along with the bin?
Is Avid FX (or Red for that matter) likely to become widespread in online bays around LA or will I always need to be prepared to prebuild anything I create with it?
Ian
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[Ian Johnson] “I know it’s best for a finishing company to have a full range of plugins to handle offlines from various sources, but would that toolset include Avid FX?”
We do. 😉
However, if they have Boris FX, I believe it is supposed to carry over. At least it did in the early days of Avid FX. They are just renamed as Avid FX but the code is the same.
Terence Curren
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