Neil Goodman
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[Michael Aranyshev] “How do you navigate your bins with keyboard shortcuts?”
You cant.
That doesn’t mean your “desperately clinging to your mouse at all times”
Pretty much everything in the timeline/fx/and color modes is accessible via KB, and much more KB centric than other NLE’s
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[Michael Aranyshev] “Because it still doesn’t know how to use your screen real estate efficiently? The thing is ugly and it’s ugliness actually gets in your way. When you clean it up to look halfway decent it stops working because “Avid is keyboard–centered NLE” is outright lie. You can’t work without desperately clinging onto your mouse all the time.
“Really? I barely need to touch a mouse once im building a cut in the timeline. This is the first time I’ve ever heard anyone complain about needing to mouse in MC.
Also screen real estate? You can make the UI do whatever you want. Buttons, no buttons, one window, two windows – whatever, and however you set up the UI shouldn’t effect the ability to use KB shortcuts.
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[Oliver Peters] “[Neil Goodman] “Avid has a lot of little bugs and error messages that dont seem to mean anything or effect the program – but ive never been able to not work through it.”
Yep. Me, too.
“Whats funny, is i’ll get something crazy flash in the bottom corner source or record window that says “Fatal Error”. Then i’ll click on something it goes away and the rest of the session runs smooth.
Its very rare to get a freeze or endless beach ball spin or get launched straight to the desktop in MC both PC and Apple.
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[Dan Stewart] “Avid is for cutting. Just.. cutting. On every other front it’s outflanked.
I’m 95% offline with 15 years in Avid (and a few wasted on Apple before they revealed their true colours).
But still, if I had to do a short fiddly promo with minimal cutting but multiple codecs, loads of FX and deliver it myself I would do it on an Apple laptop running Adobe no question.But a film? 30 mins plus of cutting? With some other fella dealing with tech? Avid every time.
“If i was a one man band – I could see myself ending up on one of the other two, but I dont work this way, and frankly dont want to be a mo graph guy. Dont get me wrong i respect the hell out of the craft – and know a little AE and whatnot, but its not something I want to do professionally, and Im usually upfront about that when i book gigs.
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[Steve Connor] “[Neil Goodman] “Also way more stable than the other two options out there”
Not sure that’s fair, every system is different, but for me FCPX has been solid as a rock for quite a while.
“Fair enough,
FCPX has been hit or miss with me depending on the version.. lots of sluggishness in the timeline and beachballing = kind of a showstopper for me as I get super frustrated duringthe creative process
PPRO has a thing on my system where intermittently the audio just drops out and stops playing even though the levels are still jumping. Rebooting the app fix’s it for me. Again really intermittent. Really annoying.
Avid has a lot of little bugs and error messages that dont seem to mean anything or effect the program – but ive never been able to not work through it.
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I will add in tho..
Avid has come along way in version 8.
The Proxy workflow in 4k is really simple. One touch like FCPX but you can pick resolutions. 4k basically native on really old machines.
Another area where Avid excels, still works great on older hardware.
Also lots of options to trans-code to if you do in fact need to trans-code. Not just Pro-res.
Search in the bins/timelines, is alot like keywords in FCPX – if you label your clips accordingly.
Also way more stable than the other two options out there. Still has little annoying bugs – but havent had any show stoppers in years.
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I think all the 3 big NLE’s have their time and place,
But I’ve staked my career on Avid simply because round here, its most used in my line of work, and the most lucrative.
I also recommend it to projects I’m hired on freelance because its what i can use the fastest and get the best results from.
Keep in mind i don’t market myself as Title/Mograph guy, colorist, or audio guy. I can do it all but don’t offer those services professionally so for me, Avid does everything i need it to do assuming a professional audio and GFX guy comes in later.
Do you need to share projects, footage, and timelines – Simple – go Avid.
If not – you could pick any of the 3 and be happy these days.
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[Bill Davis] “But how can you even assess that if you have little to no experience with ALL of them?”
thats a good question Bill, and one you should ask yourself.
You constantly slag on Avid – when was the last time you actually used it? Have you booted it up since version 4,or 5,6,7,8?
Kind of like the difference between X 10.0.1 and 10.2.1 and how people are forming an opinion based of 10.0.1
How do you know the advancements made in the last 6 years havent morphed into something that would tremendously help your workflow and business? I get that you write off Adobe for being subscription based but Avid has perpetual license options and really good, economical upgrade plan.
Just saying cause you always say people chime in w/o actually have really learnt the software. Cant the same be said for you?
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[Tony West] “What’s the trend there at your place Neil? Are they expanding editing JOBS there? Maintaining the same or cutting?
“Where i work things are the same. We started as a team of 4 staffers and 2 freelancers plus 1 finisher/AE 3 years ago. We lost a staffer due to better opportunity, and now that seat is filled with another freelancer. We also bring in freelance AE’s when we need them.
Theres been cuts but not to editorial/post.
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[Steve Connor] “So is the timeline and edit performance significantly increased? I honestly don’t care in the slightest about output renders as that’s such a small percentage of my project time I don’t mind a slightly longer wait. What I do care about is the timeline and editing in FCPX having less lag.”
this.