Daniel Frome
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What a timely post you’ve made.
I sit writing this on my macbook pro, which I’ve just installed Windows 7 on (dual booted). I’ve done the same with my mac pro tower yesterday also.
Preparing for the inevitable.
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Hey, if you’re students qualify for that Avid discount ($295+4 years upgrades free) you can always “donate” them to me and use FCPX 😉
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I won’t blame Premiere Pro for the media management, as that is mostly human ignorance. While it is “just an opinion” I will still say that I much prefer Avid for long form projects. I say that not as an Avid old school guy — as I’ve only learned avid in the last 2 years. I’ve been using Premiere about a decade before that.
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I’m still a Premiere fan at heart (albeit, a little less…now) but my experience has been quite negative, so I don’t know if sharing details on a public forum is good form…
Let’s just say that I am not impressed with Ppro and big projects. I agreed to finish the first half of the project, and then will be handing it over to another editor (who is going to finish it in Avid, hah).
On the bright side, I have learned not to bash other NLEs so quickly when they “don’t do it as fast as Premiere.” I truly value some of the strengths they bring to the table now.
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This also looks great Bill. It’s actually strikingly similar how it all works (fyi, I can make Avid’s method visual too I just didn’t enable video images for my screenshot).
Just curious: if someone else has the same clip on their computers, can you transfer your keywords over ot them, thus giving them the same collections of that clip as you’ve got?
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[Keith Carunida] “I knew that subclips in Avid were searchable but I thought it was limited to that particular subclip’s name. Can a user add keywords to subclips in Avid?”
Sorry for the double post, but in the interest of information — here is a screenshot of my giving subclips several unique keywords, and then searching them. I have entered information into some of the ‘standard’ columns that Avid creates, and also created my own:
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[Keith Carunida] “I knew that subclips in Avid were searchable but I thought it was limited to that particular subclip’s name. Can a user add keywords to subclips in Avid?”
Yes. You can assign unique metadata to every subclip, such as the “comments” column, or make up your own column, and it is all searchable.
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This makes perfect sense, but since subclips are also searchable, and can contain lots of unique metadata, I still think it serves the same purpose.
I won’t get into which way is “better” because that is subjective, but if you’re looking for a way to break up a long clip into segments and attach metadata, this is a very workable solution.
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[tony west] “I was thinking in the media manager where it say “modified media””
There is no media manager as such as Avid, and there is no ‘modified media’ option either. Perhaps you’re thinking of another NLE?
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[tony west] “Making subclips makes more media to take up space though right?”
Nope, a subclip is a virtual clip, created exactly for this case of breaking up larger media without actually duplicating.
