[Robin Lewis]

I think with the next update people should stop moaning and start using it in practise. I enjoy it a lot, with the third party extras like X2Pro ECT its faster, more fun and just feels better than all the other NLE. of course still has a long way to go but certainly is not as bad as people make out!

Good to hear someone has used it for broadcast.

[Robin Lewis]

Thanks good advise much appreciate it, pretty much got my head round it now yet im sure ill keep coming across things! /i have three weeks solid on it with daily deadlines so on a fast learning curve.. good though as by the end of the three weeks I should know Avid very well.

[Robin Lewis]

thank shane, its a different but good way of thinking, I love being able to swap clips around with the insert arrow

[Robin Lewis]

Steve,

How have you found it? do you learn anything about the deeper aspects of avid or whats happening behind the interface?

I want to be able to edit in it and use effects and grading efficiently, but also understand whats going on and be able to understand why I may have issues and how to resolve those issues.

Robin

[Robin Lewis]

Fantastic thank you

[Robin Lewis]

Also I’m not sure FCP X will be a disappointment some very promising features and it has only just come out.

100% they released it far too early but don’t get carried away it won’t become a standard in the next 6 years.

[Robin Lewis]

Don’t buy any of them Tom, at this stage you do not need to buy anything especially if you are trying to second guess the industry. You at this stage will not be making any money from the software so except for FCP X which is the cheapest of them all, they are expensive and there are other ways to learn them, like borrowing a work laptop or even better getting your work to let you edit.

Some editors are really stuck to one programme and I think that is a massive mistake, my advise learn them all especially FCP 7 and Avid this will put you in better stead when you go freelance.. even better learn After effects, cinema 4D, motion, and a become a pro at grading the more versatile you are the better.

[Robin Lewis]

SO drag the Original files in to the event within FCP X or within finder??

If you mean in finder at the moment it is using Reference files and I would like to keep it that way, any way i can fix those reference files or make new ones?

And if you mean drag back in to my event in FCPX won’t that just make new clips meaning my edit will still not connect?

thanks

[Robin Lewis]

FCP 7 turned out to be 50GB and now everything works fine.

The reason why i had bothered doing this now as it does seem that in future updates that FCP7 will be affected by FCP10 and i don’t want to get caught out, also i do some work on AVID and that does not work on Lion only Snow leopard.

[Robin Lewis]

My Macbook pro has 8GB ram and is the newest i7 i only have 200GB spare and each partition will need it’s 10% of empty space.

The FCP7 partition will have nothing on it but Avid and FCP7 the capture scratch ETC will be directed to an external drive i was hoping this would mean 100GB or even 80GB would be enough.