Typical AVID vs FCP, I need your opinion on these questions please….

[Nick B]

Why not ask Avid themselves let them sell you a $100k Symphony Nitris against a FCP system

oh and post their answers on why we should spend so much money on a Symphony Nitris against a decent FCP system.

[Sean Davison]

I edit on both (I’m a freelancer in the UK) and IMHO Avid is a better and faster cutting machine – the interface is better than FCP’s (but I started on it 10 years ago!) However FCP Blows Avid out of the water if you need to do more than simple cutting. As a compositor, it’s good, titling (with Livetype and Motion) is way better and it’s interaction with other software is streets ahead of Avid. If you are using your NLE for editing and finishing as most of us are now then FCP is superior – both in price and features. Here in the UK many people still feel its too new to trust (I cut and onlined a 50min doc for C4 in 2000 and didnt tell any one it was fcp) but the BBC are replacing many of their Avids with FCP.

Good luck