Daniel Frome
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Ugh, thanks. So if Avid actually folding? Why are you insinuating this?
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Always interesting to hear the thoughts of someone in your shoes.
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Check their NAB demo. They demo’d how their ISIS systems can do cloud editing with their “Interplay Shere” product.
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I read that in an announcer-like voice…
“that’s it folks” [lights a cigar]
“close the forum” [puts on sunglasses]Baiting them hard.
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If more people are editing in general, then good for Apple. I’m glad if lots of young people have access to editing software. When I was a kid
Seriously though… I’m a freelancer in Toronto and we’re a tightly knit community here… there are 15-20 production or post facilities at any given time (that are big enough to be on a freelancer’s radar). Nearly all of them have a FCP7 presence but it is dwindling and exists solely for support of legacy projects. There is only 1 studio that is still using FCP7 for most of its projects, but they’ve already bought Avid and simply haven’t implemented yet. So… OK — broadcast industry can be crossed off my FCPX-potentials list in this city… next I’ve got 2 friends that run mid-size wedding and corporate businesses. Both of them tried and discarded FCPX and are still using FCP7. Not a huge sample size… I suppose I won’t cross that off too soon but I can’t assume it’s getting wide adoption.
These articles and (occasional) comments on this forum are building a bigger and bigger disconnect between the supposed FCPX user share and the reality sitting in front of me every day.
We bought 2 new edit suites at my studio today … two of the (possibly last edition) mac pros and two copies of Avid Symphony — care of our old FCP licenses.
Time to get to work…
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It’s funny. The “flocking back to Avid” definitely seems to be happening, but they aren’t buying Avid’s money-maker systems (ISIS, etc), just the edit software.
They need to develop an ISIS that costs the same as one of the edit suites they are used to buying (7k ballpark) that allows people to buy their storage separately. Then it becomes an issue of “instead of an edit suite, we should this avid doohicky for the same price.”
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I’ve had great performance and stability on small and mid range project. I’ve had bad stability on large DSLR projects.
If history follows, the mac version is probably a tad more unstable.
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Depends what kind of video you do. This is only my personal opinion, and please treat it as such:
– If you do a lot of ad/agency type of work, then a fast-turnaround is often priority, with less thought given to media management, then Premiere CS5/6 will be a good option. It’s closest to your existing FCP7 software in terms of how it works.
– if you do more content driven work, such as TV shows, or other material that doesn’t require enormous amounts of FX (or especially larger projects), then Avid is your best option. It has editing/trim tools that allow you to make editorial decisions faster and easier.
I don’t know if Adobe still has their FCP promotion on, but Avid will give you Symphony for $999 since you have FCP7.
I think you need to tell us more about the type of content you product and that will determine which is the best choice.
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I’m glad you’ve had that experience. I haven’t been so lucky.