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very hip

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I just use my schedule book. I have tried everything form software to a hanging grid with dates on it but in the end, I have always just come back to my good ole schedule book. It’s the easiest thing for me. If booked by day, I can schedule a night gig. Once double booked for that day, I have to say no (if it HAS to be that day). I am very seldom booked more than two weeks out so there isn’t much to try to remember.

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seems to be how it is.
A brother doesnt wanna go messin with a mad engineer with a stick,man.

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lol
I hear ya
wait, what did you say?

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time to bail, man.
Give em a chance to raise you by 10k. When that doesn’t happen, raise yourslef by that much elsewhere.
The best way to get a significant raise is to move onward and upward. I moved my family to five states in as many years when we were having babies because no employer could offer a raise that would cover the cost of another child. Each move otta land ya another 5 figures per year. Do this in two year intervals and you’ll be doing ok.

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true dat.
Everyone knows the top dog is the client’s wife.
lol

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You wrapped it up pretty wel there, Oliver. NO NLE is ideal for any editor/artist. There will always be things we love and hate about each and every one of them. Ideally, I’d take massive programming classes, write my own and quite gripin’. lol
As far as basic editing, my favorite is still Adcom’s NighSuite. Anybody here remeber those? RIP.
I still like many things about Stratosphere’s DVE and I still love Smoke’s tracker.
I like DS’s ability to offer trees or timelines and it’s compositing will spoil a bother quickly.
I love the price point and bang for the buck factor of FCP as well as it’s simple ability to grow with the editor/studio without the need to reinvent the wheel when upgrading.
I dig Vegas’ audio strengths and still laugh at Avid’s audio weaknesses.
I like Jaleo’s ability to extrude, bevel and light logos and text without having to go to AE. No, marquee is no answer. Just more egg on the face of Avid.
Notice I mention nothing in a positive sense about any Aviod product but DS, which again was purchased, not written by them. This really should stand out in their minds. It seems to me they should buy one of each NLE on the market, disect it, learn from it and grow their product(s). This, of course, is assuming they don’t have huge stock in Apple/FCP and at this point, I assume they do. I see no other explaination for letting their once annointed Media Composer take a side seat to FCP. If that was the plan, they should celebrate. If not, somone needs to lose their job because they are really bad at it.
There wasn’t a bigger Avid fan in the world than me just a few years ago and that was for many years. Now, I simply cannot bring myself to write them another check. I don’t just mean out of principal because they have their customers pay to beta test their struggling products now. I mean literally, I have no money now because I made the mistake of making payments on an Adrenaline. Trying to place the same clients behind this box when they were use to the stability of a real Avid proved to be fatal for my business. Now they literally have to be talked into coming my way “even though I have an Adrenaline” as they put it. I owe two more years at 1250 a month on a box that is worth less than 10k now. Thats pretty tough to swallow.
I don’t even pay for assurence now because the few times I have called I get the same response “hmm, well that otta work.” I agree. What we paid for really should work. It should have when we purchased it. It should have when you advertised it.
Avid, if not offering refunds, you at least owe an explaination.

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yes. I know just another way to do it.
Still adds keystrokes that do’nt have to be.
I’m wondering what the code wroters on staff actually do each day. I’ve not seen much in 15 years. Biggest development that has come out of Avid in a decade was purchased by them, not written by them.

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yes.

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I am one of those that sees it as a waiste of time. I have worked on too many NLEs that do not require me to enter and exit a mod to trim. It’s faster to just do it. The goal when writing code for an NLE should be to allow the editor to push as few buttons as possible for each task. For this reason there should be recordable macros for those repeated tasks. I havn’t seen much change in Avid-s interface since ’94 but I have seen other apps grow leaps and bounds. This is why they are no longer the industry standard. I shold not have to lasso to slip. I should not have to go into override mode to slide. I should not have to enter trim mode to trim or select which side I’d like to trim once in that mode. I should just be able to park, hit +10 and an i for in, an o for out, a b for both, ect. Tat said, I’d like to see them fix the bugs before venturing out into features more useful.