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Those who have switched, how are you getting on?
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[John Davidson] “I had heard that AMA was best for preview purposes. Is that wrong?”
As Shane said, that used to be the case, but now AMA is truly just about there for all formats. Just a few still need to be converted but for the most part you can just edit away using AMA. Heck you can now record to ProRes in Avid these days.
Read Shane’s full review here for a very in depth look at what the new MC6 is all about.
https://lfhd.net/2011/11/03/the-more-open-avid-media-composer-6-0/
I also have an article here on the Cow about Avid keeping their promise with MC6.
https://library.creativecow.net/biscardi_walter/Avid-Media-Composer-6/1
Bottom line, all the tools play nicely with pretty much whatever hardware you now have in the shop so you’re pretty free to choose whatever you want to use for whatever suits your style.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[walter biscardi]“As Shane said, that used to be the case, but now AMA is truly just about there for all formats. Just a few still need to be converted but for the most part you can just edit away using AMA.”
Is it no longer buggy? When I last used AMA (or tried to) in a post house, it tended to crash the machine. But it was an earlier iteration of it. Just wondering what still needs to be converted as oppposed to native editing and how stable it is overall.
Also, you still have to conform your edit to an Avid codec at the end, right?
Andy
https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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Thanks very much, Frank, I appreciate the real-world report.
I’m going to give Apple until March to announce a new Mac Pro. If that happens and it has some Thunderbolt ports as well as its 4 PCIe ports, then I’ll probably buy it. If there’s no new Mac Pro, then I will strongly consider the Z800.
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