Chris Conlee
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[Steve Connor] “quite disappointed to see it looks almost entirely the same as the old interface I first used all those years ago”
This sort of thing sort of cracks me up; these vendors can’t win for losing. Change it and people scream bloody murder. Don’t change it, and people call you old fashioned.
Truth is, I prefer they don’t change the Avid interface too much as it borders on perfection as it is. What’s changed is under the hood. 64bit awesomeness, with all cores cranking to their full capacity. Lots of RAM. And pretty much any modern video card you want to throw at it for display purposes. I’m LOVING it. Oh, and the new mixer with surround capability, etc. Granted the mixing is very rudimentary, but it’s improving.
Chris
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[Jason Jenkins] “I’m waiting for Speed Razor to come back.”
I used that for a while. Moved to Incite on a Digisuite LE card for a while. But have always pined for the venerable Movieshop on a VLab Motion card in my Amiga 3000T. Those were the days.
Avid MC6 for me these days, and LOVING it!
Chris
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[Danielle Warren] “Every time I’ve used Avid in the past I hate it and find it extremely un-user friendly.”
Hello Danielle,
Over a decade ago I came to Avid from some other systems, and I too felt as you do. However, all these years later and I wouldn’t dream of cutting ANYTHING on another system unless somebody had a gun to my head. It’s just that good.
However, my biggest advice to you is to stop trying to compare Avid to FCP. They’re two totally separate systems, with different paradigms. Avid treats editing as if you’ve got spools of film in your hand, with everything run thru gang synchronizers. Learn and embrace the trim tools, particularly asynchronous trimming. It’s a very powerful thing.
The sooner you embrace the “Avid way of doing things,” the sooner you’ll get up to speed and start enjoying what you’re doing. If you try to make Avid act like Final Cut Pro it’s gonna prolong your pain.
Good luck,
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[Justin Stephenson] “the way that you import and output material really feel like bolted on and parochial solutions rather than cleanly integrated, robust workflows.”
Actually, not to be to persnickety, but Avid’s is probably THE MOST robust workflow precisely because it has always required proper planning and media management at the start of the project. No lost media, or forgotten links to songs on CDs still sitting in the tray with Avid of old. However, with the new AMA workflows to appease the masses, these types of problems will undoubtedly creep back in.
Undoubtedly a brave new world. And I too love my home on Avid.
Chris
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Funny hearing Avid described as “cool.” Longtime Avid editors used to grate their teeth when hearing how “cool” that new FCP thing was. GRRRR. I guess it’s come full-circle.
Fine with me!
Chris
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In general, even backwards usually works, as long as you don’t use any of the new features, such as surround or specific RTAS plugins.
I’m LOVING v6, btw. It’s nice to see the activity monitors pegging out at 80-90% on ALL the processors when I do a render! Very fast.
Chris
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Well, as somebody else mentioned in this thread, we all tend to look at tools from the perspective of our own needs. I’m in the broadcast and motion picture side of things, so web-based content, in particular, is what I was referring to as “alternative media.” I suppose it’s not that alternative to many, and I certainly meant NO disrespect, as a paying gig is a paying gig, no matter what the intended distribution is.
Who knows? I just wonder, as the OP pointed out, if the tools are so superior for people doing non-broadcast work that it’ll find a market. And if non-pros, doing family videos, will see the benefit in spending somewhere between $300 and $400 when they already have iMovie.
Full disclosure, I’m an Avid guy through and through, and can’t really see the need to ever use anything else for any job given my familiarity with it. However, I do own licenses for FCS 3 and CS5.5 just in case somebody walks in the door with a project that I need to fix.
I haven’t sprung for FCP X yet, because nobody has yet walked in with a FCP X job that needs help.
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I’ve been saying since they launched it, that I think they made a serious marketing mistake — which is uncommon for Apple. For exactly the reasons you mentioned, I don’t think they’re going to find a market for this piece of software, which is why I said on the first day I expect the price to fall to $79 and they’ll market it as a more professional version of iMovie for people who need “just a little more” from their editing application.
It doesn’t have the features that “pros” in the broadcast sense of the word need, so they’re not going to spend on it, and it doesn’t differentiate itself enough from iMovie to make amateurs absolutely HAVE to splurge on it to the tune of $400 (with compressor and motion).
Of course some alternative media professionals have appreciated the tools, and they’ll continue to use the software, but I don’t think the market is as big as Apple anticipated. I actually think it’s even MORE of a niche software than it was before. Time will tell, I suppose.
Chris
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Purely speculation of course, but I suspect it will run on the earlier machines, Avid just didn’t test them. There’s already information out there that MC6 will run on 10.6.8, which also isn’t ‘supported.’
Chris
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Bill et al.,
In the interest of not hijacking (completely) this thread, I’ll let it go. Although the desire to respond is strong.
Chris