Walter,
Yeap, its a long long time till April. At work, we use Betacam, so being able to accuately do insert edits is pretty important. I had almost forgot that a NLE should be able to do this “no problem” and that the standard method of doing inserts was not finding nice long disolves to go in and out on. At home, I’m DV / DVCAM / (tapeless). Its my understanding that one can not do insert edits on DV decks, is this really true? What about HDV?
After being so excited about STP, I’m bummed to read the Posts (above) problems with back and forth work flow issues. Maybe all those STP tools and loops should just be in FCP. I’m a big fan of one stop shopping, call me lazy. Just some last night thoughts…
I’m in the middle of some projects both here and at work so I guess I’ll wait for a lull in the storm to go FCP5. How does having both FCPHD and FCP5 on the same machine work? I know you have to rename FCPHD so that FCP5 does not replace it. But are there any other issues I should be aware of?
Thanks, Chris