[David Cooke]

This is actually in response to Walter Biscardi’s response about Avid in answering the Sony Vegas features.
You all are correct, every edit system is a bit different, some features others don’t have, but I must
discuss AVID. Avid is LOOSING customers left and right! 3 quick examples. #1- Printed in this month’s
Television broadcast- major arm of ABC network quoted as saying the “first thing we had to do was
get rid of Avid. They went with FCP. This arm controls all the ABC shows going to all the mobile platforms, streaming services, etc. Our company that owns 46 stations has said they are replacing
all Avid equipment as fast as they can afford. Another major broadcasting firm owning over 26 stations
has dropped ALL their AVID maintenance contracts corporate wide. And a local station in my market,
just put in all new AVID install. After 1 week of Avid people there to help, they have had MAJOR problems.
Bottom line, yes I have numerous things I’d like to see FCP add to their next version, but for now, heads
and shoulders above most all other NLE’s especially for the price and NO down time.

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[David Cooke]

Thanks everyone. I have counseled my FCP co-editor friend based on your responses, plus will help us plan for the future in our production house.

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[David Cooke]

Thanks to both of you. After a “church event tonight” I will try these possibles up in our edit suite.
Just never ran into this either at my work or at my home suite. But after a few “basic” sessions
at church with 2 of our “teens”, they have been editing “alone” and some of them have hit a few
“other buttons” that I have found “off”.
thanks,
DC

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[David Cooke]

Just wanted let some of you know that “Flip4mac” is GREAT and a lifesaver at least for us here in
the 49th TV market. Our occassional problem is if we upgrade too soon to the newest “Quicktime”
release it corrupts Flip4mac until they come out with a patch.
Using Windows9, it is now “SOP” to make smaller wmv’s for clients to quickly
review/approve their spots right on their computer, so we aren’t trying to do high end work, you know
“knock” the SD spots down to a size that can go thru regular e-mail, say under 8megs total file size.
We only do HD commercial spots 6-8 times a year so far-having to “dumb” down to letterbox when
broadcast. Our market is “stuck” partially transitioned into the “HD World”.
Intel DUal 3.0 G5 4 gig ram
FCP7
CS3 AE 8,Caldigit 2.5TB

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[David Cooke]

Thanks John, we’ll just live and learn for next time.

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[David Cooke]

Hi David! Wanted to let you know, looks like the Trashing Prefs worked. We still need to clean
our drives and are going to get Disk Warrior ASAP. Had this on our old MAC-Based system- The
Affinity by Accom and worked great.

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[David Cooke]

Thanks Chris! We used to do that as “SOP” with our old MAC-based editing system- The Affinity by Accom and it worked. We Just got another 1 TB FW800 for backup use so will do this ASAP.

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[David Cooke]

Thanks very much David! We will trash the prefs first. We’ve had to do this at times before but
just did not think about it. We will let you know if and when the problem gets fixed.

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[David Cooke]

Thanks Rafael. Will give it a try. We used diskwarrior on our old MAC editing system-Affinity
and it was a great tool.

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[David Cooke]

Dan! What actual dvd program did you use? DVD SP, the Adobe product or another? OR does
compressor have a “basic” burn” feature? Never have looked.
We have used compressor with DVD SP for only standard-def stuff, but have received a few
client requests for HD materials burned on DVD, so we are starting to “look at” what is out there.
FCP 6.0.6
MAC OS 10.5.8
2 x 3.0 Dual intel
4 gig ram

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