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What do you mean by Fast?
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Which other NLEs have audio locked to video? In Edius the audio is locked to video by default as well. Audio tracks 1 and 2 sit empty while your audio is represented by a thin bar underneath your video.
Actually it’s strikes me that FCPX has been built to run a lot like Edius in it’s default setup. Apart from the audio lock when you first load Edius up it’s a single screen set up. Ripple mode is on. Tracks are locked- meaning you make an edit in V1 it ripples right through all the other tracks so they stay in sync. I haven’t been able to try FCPX- my mac is one generation too old but I imagine editing in FCPX is very similar to this. It’s a fun way to edit.
Generally of course I have all those defaults switched off and use it with a source window.
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Edius is not a editor you want to emulate. It’s pretty horrid.
Brian Mulligan
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Avid has had sync lock forever. You can turn it on and off.
Tim
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It’s a while since I played with AVID. Doesn’t sync lock in AVID work in the same way as FCP7? I mean that the sync lock button just toggles on and off for the entire timeline rather having to individually seperate audio and video for every clip as you need to in some other programs.
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No, as with most things in Avid the sync locks are track dependent.
Tim
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Mike-
Have you used FCPX much?”
Yes quite a bit we got it day one and started evaluating its strengthens and current weaknesses, using it on test projects and such. We determined that FCPx did not suit the universities needs (at this time). During that same time we evaluated Adobe and Avid. It was determined that Avid was best suited for us to sink are reasource into. This was due to current functionality, hardware compatibility, Price ($300 a seat for education), and Industry Prestige.
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That’s a good move for your University at this point because more places that might hire your students
have Avid.What will be interesting to me are students that come to your University in the future who have already learned X at home and never used Avid.
It will be a change for them and I would love to know how they will react. While I think they should learn both, my guess is that many will cut their own stuff on their X at home.
It’s so different now, than when I was in school (83-87) You had no access to editing and all you knew was what the college taught you. We were clean slates.
It won’t ever be that way again.
Say some kid startes cutting with X and motion in the 8th grade and comes to you with 5 years of experience with a product.
I’m just thinking out loud about how the world has changed.
A little off topic but how much does BYU cost a semester these days?
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[Mike Jeffs] “Yes quite a bit we got it day one and started evaluating its strengthens and current weaknesses, using it on test projects and such. We determined that FCPx did not suit the universities needs (at this time). During that same time we evaluated Adobe and Avid. It was determined that Avid was best suited for us to sink are reasource into. This was due to current functionality, hardware compatibility, Price ($300 a seat for education), and Industry Prestige.”
So, surely you must know from using it, that there’s an intangible quickness to X.
The ease of sorting/viewing/tagging/recalling footage.
The trim tools, the rt effects previews, the low amount of clicking, highly keyboard shortcut friendly, no clip collisions, easy stem exports, no render breaks, the list goes on.
I understand how it’s not fit for a university. It’s not quite ready yet, but speed might not be of importance to students.
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[tony west] “What will be interesting to me are students that come to your University in the future who have already learned X at home and never used Avid.”
In some ways I actually think that the radical departure that FCPX incorporates will end up being a better thing. Currently we have to take a majority of time “Unlearning” many bad habits, or less effect techniques that students have acquired by self-learning FCP classic. All of my current studetns are excited to start learning Avid and using it here in our facility.
[tony west] “A little off topic but how much does BYU cost a semester these days?”
current tution per semester is $1700, with the average cost of living (room and board, books, food ect.) is about $6000 a semester. Now this is the Idaho campus the other ones are different we have the same name but are different schools 🙂
Mike Jeffs
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[Mike Jeffs] “All of my current studetns are excited to start learning Avid and using it here in our facility. “
As they should, it is vital that any Student Editor or Filmmaker knows how to use Avid if they want to make themselves more marketable in the industry
“FCPX Agitator”
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