David Powell
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Also make sure you don’t have media offline in the sequence. If you’re good on that, try deleting the database files in the media folder, restart the computer, fire up MC and that usually cures all my error problems.
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It is quite shameful how Avid markets AMA. Considering that most people using or coming to Avid are looking for professional workflow solutions, its downright false advertising the way they say “now you don’t have to transcode! Just start editing!” You can’t do multi-cam with it, you can export a ref file etc…
I think its great for the what its real purpose is, making selects. But you would think one could complete a project relatively smoothly with AMA alone reading the marketing. Even the training materials downplay the limitations to “transcoding may give better performance in some instances”.
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“Or when I read about Avid”
Thats about the silliest thing I’ve ever heard.
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You switched to FCP7 because you had to collaborate, and then immediately switched to FCPX? And then you didn’t have to collaborate? Story doesn’t make sense to me.
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A huge question also, why would anyone invest in a post infrastructure that ties them to Apple computers with no clue on whether or not powerful macs will exist in the near future? Both Avid and Adobe are hardware agnostic. This is enough reason to not go with X all on its own regardless of its features.
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I think people need to remember why FCP became so popular. It was cheaper than all the other alternatives for what it could do. Avid priced itself out of the market that built the grassroots movement with FCP. That is not the case today. FCPX basically tried to repeat the same plan at $300 vs $2500. But anyone who makes a living off of editing will pay $2500 to use what is considered the “gold standard” in professional editing, a title that’s always been held by MC. Today there are no barriers, accept for those who were using cracked versions of FCP, and want a pro NLE for sub $500.
People want to use what they think the pros are using. They want to know that if an opportunity arises, to make a significant jump in their careers, they are not held back by their lack of experience on the software being most used in the industry.
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I was just trying to wrap my head around this Richard. Are you saying after you have finished an edit you identify all the 5d footage and move it to a new track? Or you purposefully edit all the 5d footage to a separate vid track from the beginning?
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Why would you need to go back to FCP 7? I thought .04 update solved these issues? Davinci can read XML from X and AD can export omf’s no?
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I have a similar issue going. I did a scene cut of a flat movie. The file was shot at 59.94. Final cut read it that way and avid read it at 29.97. I’m pretty sure I split it at the wrong framerate. Is there a way to fix this? And should I split at 30?
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You can turn on and off the auto moving of the video track visibility in the Timeline hamburger menu.