what would YOU do

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Bob Flood] “would you buy a product from a comapny that delayed releasing a 64 bit operating system so they could make a phone?”

Just curious, but why did you? Why didn’t you stick with the Discreet products and stay in this Autodesk (Or Discreet) nirvana everyone seems to have that came from Edit.

[Bob Flood] “my biggest peeve being you cant cut, or ripple delete a shot with a dissolve.)”

It takes an extra button click (like cut (Apple-x) the dissolve first) then do your edit or ripple delete, then paste the dissolve back on to the cut point (Apple-v).

Not real elegant but that’s the way I work with it.

[Andy Mees]

[JeremyG]
“[Bob Flood] “would you buy a product from a comapny that delayed releasing a 64 bit operating system so they could make a phone?”

Just curious, but why did you? “

Does it matter? Don’t raise to the bait Jeremy!

Bob, for whatever reason obviously you did change and from the tone of your post I’m guessing it was either not your choice to do so, or certainly not a happy one anyway! You sound as bad as me mate 🙂 I’m required to edit on an Edius system, and I like a good grumble about it too!

and on that note…
[Bob Flood] “and why are there so many FCP training resources? it seems there are a lot more than for Avid?”

try finding one for Edius. a plethora of training resources is far from a bad thing.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Andy Mees] “Does it matter? Don’t raise to the bait Jeremy!”

I’m really curious. Everyone that I have talked to that’s used Edit (in person and on these forums) has nothing but great things to say about it, I am just wondering if it’s such a good thing, why not stick with an Autodesk product? I am truly just wondering for my own stupid self is all. Does it matter? No, not really.

[Bob Flood]

Jeremy

you said

“if it’s such a good thing, why not stick with an Autodesk product?”

because edit wasnt really an autodesk product, at least not in the design sense

Its a long involved story but in a nutshell:

edit was d-Vision”OnLine” and needed money. Discreet bought them and kept the original R & D team together (which is what made it great) and gave them money. They changed the name to edit and made it better. (the only similarity between edit and the other dicreet products was the color of the interface)

THEN

Autodesk bought discreet, which is probably why discreet bought edit

THEN

Autodesk killed edit, and would not sell or release the code that made edit so great

So For Me

Autodesk sucks. I would never buy, rent, or use any autodesk product. ever.
and there are enough alternatives out there that you do not have to, including (grrr) fcp

Soooooo

I had no choice in using this system (some people have FCP thrust upon them). I would rather have gone with avid, but it was purchased and done before we could do anything

BUT

if it were not for this forum, guys like Jeremy G and my tenacious desire to overcome the challenge of learning it, as it seems it is here to stay, I would have given up a long time ago.

so i use fcp. i have fed back my complaints to apple. i am vocal about what i think can be done to improve it. and so on

and BTW, if you cut the the dissolve out, you cant cut the clip, which is what i want to do anyway. AND “one more keystroke”? there are already too many “one more keystroke’s” for my personal taste. 🙂 (why cant the dissolve just stay or go away? why do i have to get an error message?)

bee eph

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Excellent, Bob.

Thank you.