MC 5 announced… Smoking!!

[David Braswell]

Granted everybody works and thinks differently, and Avid can use some “freshening up”. But the idea that the “whole interface needs an overhaul” seems to be a prevalent one. I wonder what kinds of specific changes are people looking for? My wish list would include:

1. Audio sweetening like Adobe Premiere. Stackable filters in a console view, with subsample editing.

2. Fix the DVE interface. I use it but it still gives me nightmares trying to prevent effects from “stenciling” all the way to my background.

Those are my big two and I know both will involve massive code rewrites. The recent additions of sticky transitions, and willy-nilly clip grabbing and trimming may appease the Premiere/Cube/Affinity crowd, but they were not really on my radar. (OK, sticky X’s are nice!)

[Sean Lander]

For me the interface has hardly changed since I began using it in 1992. Then Final Cut came out in 1999 and basically cherry picked everything that was good with Avid and left the rest.

Here’s what I’d love to see Avid steal from FCP.

A proper customisable keyboard.

The ability to see waveforms for audio only files loaded into the source monitor.

A total re-write of effects mode. It truly sucks the way it is right now.

Give us proper Vectorscope and Waveform monitors, not this one line rubbish.

Re-work the preferences so that it’s not all over the place like it is now.

Allow US to designate sequence settings not the first clip.

A tool palette containing things like Crop, Trim Rollers, Pen tool, Speed etc.

Ditch or make “Filler” optional. I hate the way it is an object in the Timeline.

Make the interface look modern!

These are just a few but would go a long way to helping feel like I would actually like to cut on Avid again.

Right now I’m on MC 3, and I feel like I’ve gone through a timewarp back to 1995.

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