Les Kaye
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[alex udell] “I think Avid has been quite innovative in terms of their approach to moving away from dedicated boardsets to the external hardware that currently drives their product line. Scalable peformance is also a really nice innovation.”
Um, I think this is in response to FCP being there first in many wayws (not the external hardware part of the equation. IMHO, they both have their advantages, but I find myself preferring FCP (which btw, has much in common with edit*).
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[bogiesan] “Can you point me to this place in the manual where it says, “This is a cool feature but you can’t use it?””
From Chapter 4, page 68:
“You can edit markers into your sequence as if they were clips. However, a marker edited directly from the Browser into a sequence becomes an independent clip, with no affiliation to the clip from which it came. In most cases, you should avoid this, because it can make media management more difficult later.”[bogiesan] “This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.””
I guess I did…
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[Tom Ackroyd] “This is why to get a burn-in of a sequence you need to nest the whole thing first.”
Actually…there is another and easier method. For those from the Avid/discreet school of applying an effect (such as tc) to a blank track, it can be done in FCP. Simply add a slug of the desired duration to a blank track above your clips, then add the TC filter to the slug. You then need tp change the composite mode of the slug to Add (IIRC). It worked when I did it yesterday, although the caveat is that the clips underneath the tc slug were B&W with a strobe – I didn’t check the solution for simple color clips.
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[Randy] “He says it is the best thing since Edit*”
Um, no it’s not. And has he worked on anything else?
As someone who’s also come from an edit (and Avid) background, and has had hands on experience with Liquid, I can honestly say that while there are some nice features in Liquid (actually mainly one – background rendering), it’s appeal is really for someone who’s married to the right click workflow from discreet edit. That’s really it. Liquid certainly doesn’t “suck” but it also doesn’t compare to FCP (or Avid) for compositing, let alone the integration of Motion & Soundtrack Pro (the “Fuse” workflow in Liquid is, IMHO, very inferior). One more thing – its 6.0 UI is also about the ugliest NLE UI that I’ve ever seen.
The other reality is why would your company invest in a product with an unknown future?
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[debe] “I believe I said it would be nice to have the option”
Yes you did – I stand corrected. Thanks.
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Respectfully Debe – you’re rationalizing. It’s sorta like motion control in FCP – great and lame at the same time, yet some here think it’s fine ’cause that’s all they know. When someone has worked with other NLEs that work “correctly” with a specific feature, it is NOT more convenient when a work around is required.
That said, moving an arrow back a frame is not a big deal, but I’d rather not if I don’t have to. The option drag in Avid is a good solution.
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IKeys was just recommended to me as a macro program that works well with FCP. I plan to check it out and will report back.
In the meantime:
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[Chris Reynolds] “I have had this beef with FCP and avid forever”
Well, it doesn’t help you with FCP, but in Avid you can hold down the option/alt key (IIRC) to drag to the last frame. You can also set ff/rew in Avid to stop on tail frames.
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[Ramsey] “Many PC-based editing suites in the past have had significant conflict issues with having any “outside” software installed on edit systems.”
Many? I wasn’t aware of others being so finicky besides discreet edit – which was mostly due to it’s pretty unique low level programming, which caused ODBC driver conflicts bewteen Offoce 2000 and edit. IIRC, that changed in edit 6.0 with the Fox Pro drivers. In any case, since there are more than a few who have both FCP & Xpress Pro on their systems, Word/Office shouldn’t be a concern.