Having been in the business 20 years I guess I have worked with an editor or two, so will not comment on the last post. I have several close friends that are great editors but sadly can’t afford to have them travel to the locations I work in. They have recommended FCP but before making the investment in a program that does way more than I need, I wanted to check for alternatives. Does n’t seem an unreasonable request.
I asked the original question as I travel to remote locations and need to manage footage in the field and send it back. Ideally I would like to go firewire out from the camera to a laptop (running FCP or alternative), capture the footage, add metadata and export QT movies as requested by the library.
I would love to be able to send the tapes to an editor or straight to the library, but the circumstances do not allow that.
Thanks