[Scott Witthaus]

Hey Oliver –

One can only think, with Avid’s current emphasis on Avid Everywhere, those percentages will change even more towards hardware and away from software.

Of course, without balanced books, it’s all speculation.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

[David Cherniack] “Maybe BM can speed it up but it doesn’t appear that Apple has, despite its great resources.”

Understood. But, like Premiere, BM has years of track based NLE’s to work from, so to say it looks like Premiere or FCP8 is easy….because that’s where it’s based. The ramp up time is much quicker getting there. Apple, whether you like it or not, changed the way one can edit. It’s creating this as it goes. Better or worse? That’s a personal and business decision.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

There are many more ‘mature’ products to provide that available now. While interesting, Resolve 11 is brand new and untested. X or Premiere might be better options for you at this point.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

[Bret Williams] “With improvements to text, plugins, and better trim and keyframe tools than X, it looks like the best of X without a magnetic timeline and premiere put together plus resolve built in.”

Having played with Resolve 10 editor, it is VERY basic and needs alot more than 70 improvements to be productive and fast. This will be interesting to watch, however.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

[Steve Connor] “Well that proves it, FCPX is clearly aimed at the Prosumers because that bloke said so.”

shhh…don’t tell Black Magic that. They would have to re-do all those e-mails and web pages!

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

Interesting if you want to ‘go back’ to tracks….the new folks using X never knew tracks and would have no reason to “go back”.

I just find it interesting the prominent mentions X gets in the articles.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

[James Culbertson] “Currently, most students use FCPX and only one or two per semester choose to use Premiere. I wonder how they account for those kinds of situations”

James, that’s a great point that I was just about to ask. I am seeing the exact same thing where I teach.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

Note the word “looks”. It was all in fun.

However, it will be good to be more compatible with my colorist who is a Resolve guy.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

I am just happy to be more compatible with my colorist who is a Resolve guy. Having played with Resolve 10, it’s very basic. BMD might be putting together just enough of an editor for mastering. Yeah, it’s a great time to be in this business…

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

It certainly looks like they are making the FCPX editor very comfortable.

sw

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter