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Ready to Throw my AVID out the window.
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Scott Cumbo,
I respectfully disagree with you regarding training. I’m certainly not implying that Mr. Burke or any other FCP editor needs days of edit training, but if they are having the kind of trouble as Mr. Burke appears to be having, than an orientation to Avid may be helpful.
I’m very much a big fan of help files, I often access them myself and encourage others to do so when some new process comes along. But to call training “crap” is wrong, Training is a very viable process that can give someone that boost of confidence, and that orientation to the terminology that can make the difference between failure and success when beginning to use a new piece of hardware or software.
Help files can help you when you have one specific question you want answered, but training opens up the whole ball of wax. The fact is, you often don’t know what you don’t know, and training opens your eyes to what you don’t know that you don’t know, while help files usually only answers those things you know that you don’t know.
One other thought, My guess is that Mr. Burke works as a one man band with no one sitting in an edit bay right next door to bounce questions, tips and techniques off of. Knowing what I know of Broadway Video, you have several editors within earshot most of the time. I’m sure you interact with each other on a constant basis. Training gives someone that human interaction that helps far more than a help file can ever hope to.
M. Scott Cole
Senior Post Production Editor
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CBS News, NYC
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As far as training, I would suggest this starting point, posted below:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/45/881065
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Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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Audio dissolves should be just as easy to do in Avid or even easier compared to Fcp7. In general however I think Avid is not at all as intuitive as FCP7. So for FCP editors who never tried Avid it can be frustrating. But hang in, don’t throw it out the window :-). It can be learned. Everything is just a little more complicated. I myself am struggling with Avid MediaFiles linked with my FCP7. Avid can’t read them because they were copied from the originally drive, instead they should have been consolidated. But there were never any problems in FCP7.
I believe Avid is so popular first and foremost because of its network/server solutions. Not because of the interface. In all circumstances it’s hard to be an editor and not know
Avid, at least in my part of the world. And with the end of FCP as we know it Avid will be even bigger.Brian
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I just picked up the Media Composer for FCP users DVD and it’s fantastic. Still, it’s been said time and time again here, don’t force Avid to work like FCP because they don’t quite work the same way, but it’ll get you up and running very quick, and it’s $50 on Avid’s website.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Get Steve Cohen’s book “Avid Agility” and quit complaining…this is not the first post like this from you Greg. It’s getting old.
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Mr Cole,
We disagree, such is life.Scott Cumbo
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[Brian Vedholm] “It can be learned. Everything is just a little more complicated. “
Actually, I’m not sure this is 100% accurate. It’s just different. That alone does not make it “more complicated.” Generally speaking there are probably a dozen ways to accomplish any one thing in Avid. Once you pick the one that you like, you’ll most likely find that it isn’t “complicated” at all, but in fact very flexible and efficient. I feel the same way when I’m forced to use FCP 7; everything feels complicated and unintuitive. Hang in there.
Chris
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Paltex…. gosh I liked that system. My hands could fly over the keybd…got out of editing, except as a producer to rough cut with both AVID and FCP, now heading back in. Have been taking the LYNDA.com training course, as well as AVID online course and the lessons available here at creativecow. I do like the cleaner interface of the AVID. It is much faster to use for me. AMA is just super for EX footage.
Regards,
Jeremy
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