new toy time

[Timothy J. allen]

Grinner,
Sorry to hear about Ol’ Bessie. Maybe she’ll run across my old Media 100 (a.k.a. “Charlotte”) in her new travels.

This past year, we also switched to Avid MC Adrenalines, and I have to tell you that after some time using other NLE systems (which I won’t name, but are also PC-based), I am very happy that we went with Avid.

We have five Adrenalines on Unity and all of them have the DNXHD board. I’m not complaining about speed or compressed codecs or any of that stuff one bit. All I know is that, due to us going with the Adrenaline NLEs, I’m finally back to being comfortable promising our clients specific completion dates for their shows.

As I type this, I’m in a hotel room in Tewksbury, MA, having just finished Advanced Editing (201) training this afternoon. I can’t wait to get back and try multicam editing along with the other things that were covered in the class.

Congratulations on your new speedster! May you take the (learning)curves slow enough to avoid crashes, but fast enough to get your “adrenaline” pumping. 😉

-TJA

[Paul Peltekian]

Hey Tim-

Glad to see you’re happy with your Adrenalines. I too am very happy with AVIDs in general. I’m currently working on a show that’s running 7 Adrenalines and 10+ Xpress Pro systems all from a unity. The Xpress systems are for the story dept and producers. They peek at our cuts every morning and they use it to also create new rough cuts and search for shots for us (so we don’t have to do it ourselves!!).

It’s a great marriage between the two systems. Aside from the once-in-awile crash with the Adrenalines, they seem to work just fine. We’re running v1.6.6 which is probably why it crashes so often.

Anyways.. glad to hear you’re going well! Shoot me an email if you ever need some AVID tips.

-Paul P. aka “Editor formerly known as ‘other NLE user'”