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My vendor is awesome. I will buy from them again and again. They worked with me on the sale and offer great support. I have no beef whatsoever with Midwest Media Group. They are always wonderful to work with. It’s the product thats a dog. I have noone to blame but myself, really. I knew it was a dog when I bought it. Ironicly, after paying more than what it’s supposidly selling for now, I still owe more than it’s supposidly selling for now.
oi vay
With the death of my Symphony, mondo projects dangling and a clientel that is use to only Avid, I felt it was a have to deal at the time.
My work flow is no more demanding than anyone elses. I grab material, chop it all up then add lotsa layers of love. Late in the day it wines about memory issues. I don’t keep photoshop and after effects open in each session anymore because it just can’t handle it. Drag, considering I have 4 times the amount of ram I had on my stable system. It gets REAL cranky when capturing via firewire. I try to do all my capturing in one swoop because it may take it 15 minutes of rebooting and talking nice to it to finally grab one. Most fixes are just creating new user settings, which I am quite tired of. The audio pops on rendered audio dissolves are annoying, having to render them at all is a joke, having to do mixdowns to make DVDs is cheesy and the DVE is still old school. Then there is the two crash a day for no particular reason that always makes clients happy. I’ve had to start keeping up with sports so I can turn around with a “how bout them Rams?” while we wait. It’s affected my bottom line as I give consessions over and over again for this thing. I honestly see it as a $45k mildy tweeked version of Xpress Pro.
Avid use to take pride in being the industry leader in non-linear editing. That pride went away long ago. This is exemplified by thier dropping Adrenaline prices rather than increasing it’s quality to match it’s original price point.

So after that warm set up, anybody want a slightly used Avid AdrenalineHD?

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I found the presets to be spot on. I have tweeked attributes galore and havn’t found a prettier setting.
With fluid motion speed effects, some speeds don’t jive with some action sometimes. I have never had any trouble with fluidfilm tho.

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[AK-Jake] “Adrenaline HD” system for around $18,000. Avid REALLY dropped their prices this year”

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

and suddenly my bunghole hurts.

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Why are ya movin’ from Premiere Pro? Have you looked at FCP too? Ever checked out Vegas?
I have been on an Avid product since 1994. I’ve seen many changes… most for the better but I can’t say I’m a fan of the new Media Composer. I had a Meridien-based Symphony and I got more than my money’s worth. It was VERY used when I got it and I went on to kick the heck out of it daily for the next 2.5 years. I billed out well over a half million dollars on that box before it finally croaked. Now I have an Adrenaline HD and I can’t tell you how much I wish I had just fixed the ole Symphony. The Adrenaline is buggy, overpriced and in a few more software upgrades, I’d say it may be ready for a version 1 release to the public. Right now, we as paying customers are beta testing for Avid as they try to sift through the buggyness. It use to be a new software version from Avid meant added bells and whistles. Now they are bug fixes… or attempts at them. While I crashed maybe once a month on meridien-based Avids, I crash daily with the new and improved and frankly, it’s taken alot of the fun out of editing for me.
I never priced a mojo MC so I can’t compair the two. MC will import seperate layers one at a time from psd files but won’t bring in a single psd file with layers. It won’t import AE comps but you can export QT refrences from Avid, do yer thang in AE then import a rendered quicktime or image sequence as media.

My decision to buy revolved around my clientele/workflow needs. Yours should too. If you have clients demanding the A word, find the best Avid solution for your workflow. If nobody is requesting it, I’d do some more shoppin around.

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ahhhh
Well, dream chasing is expensive stuff, my friend and that’s what I have been doing for the last year. I’m too close to selling a national show to stop now and have run off all my clientele in doing so. Thats the drag about being a one man band… nobody to run the shop while you try to climb to places never explored before. I’ma climb and explore anyway. If I havn’t sold my show by Fevruary when my lease is up, I will close the studio (now just a huge expense) and bring my Avid home. I’ll freelance in other suites by day and dream chase by night. I hope to have the show sold in a month or two and I won’t have to do all of this.

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[Lyndsay] “what is the correct way to output a fully calibrated sequence when you only want to correct half of it?”
tell your boss to do the other half?
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If each shot doesn’t need color correction… just has to be legal, you can throw a color effect as filler over your entire sequence and it’ll squish the peak levels to 100ire. It will wash things out in extreme cases but is prolly the quick fix your lookin for.

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is it consistantly doing this or just enough to make the day longer?
these bugs are not easy to track down. I rebooted several times for several different reasons today.
Sure makes me miss my old Avid.

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try distorting the A clip with a sapphire warp or somthing you have like it. Once you get the crumble alright you can animatte your hands in crushing it then bust a quick dissolve to B up full. You’ll find animatting the hands over the A shot will hide it’s obvious warpness instead of crumbleness rather well… assuming it happens quick.

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you can select the sequence then go to the hamburger menu at the bottom of that bin and click select media relatives. You can reverse that selection and delete the clips not used. It’ll be reasy to batch then. On longer format shows, you can set it up to just keep handles on the clips you used and delete everything else. Doesn’t sound like you’ll need to do that this time around.

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The kino idea is cool. I’ve had great results with halogen track lighting on dimmers. It does change the color temp but I keep it pretty dim and never change it. I just throw on the florescents when I need to play engineer.
I’m a fan of lamps. They keep things softly lit and can add personality to an otherwise grey room.
I am planning on closing my studio in February and will have a boatload of hip furniture and lighting FS if interested.