[Tae]

I think Boris has some plug ins, but no, it does not exist nativley, which is one of the biggest bummers.

[Tae]

At work we have Boris Continum Complete. It’s decent, but Sapphire and Digital Film tools rock the house, IMHO.

[Tae]

Ditto on Video Symphony.

[Tae]

Try opening up Audio project in your setting, or on your audio mix tool, make sure your track assignments are correct.

[Tae]

How are you taking in the footage? DV? Uncompressed?

[Tae]

Walter, Shane, thank you both for your responses. I guess this is my real quandry. I don’t want to plunk down almost $700 for a dual 1.3 upgrade (even though it sounds nice, $700 is waaaaaaay too much for cutting mostly personal projects and learning FCP). If I wait 2 months or so, I could afford the 1.2 single processor. What would you guys say would be the minimum acceptable upgrade? I wish there were a middle ground, like dual 7 or 800 processors, but i haven’t found any.

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks again.

[Tae]

[IMG-INTERACTIVEMEDIAGURUS] “I know VERY well how to use my Avid system, Tae, as well as my Premiere 6.5, PPRO, Vegas 4 & 5 and FCP4 systems. I am not some novice punk with little knowledge and no experience; quite the CONTRARY. I probably have more DVD’s professionally duplicated and released on the global markets than you do (20+ titles so far with over 250,000 copies in distribution on the world marktplace. You can find copies of them in Wal-mart, Best Buy, Amazon and online at several other National and International distributers, but who’s counting?). FYI, I have been in the Audio and Video business for over 27 years, how about you? I also have played in two world-famous bands (one of them had a hit song that debuted at #1 on American Bandstand). So, my point is, before you start flaming somebody, listen and learn before you speak. Your ignorance is showing BIGTIME.

Your remark about dragging and dropping was a smug answer from someone who sounds like YOU don’t know what you are talking about. Because if you DID, you would know that, in fact, when you DON’T use the wieght lifter icon, you will screw up your timeline and compress the clips. And by compress, I don’t mean video compression, I mean that the entire timeline will then be out of sequence, with the audio out of sync. But of course, I’d just be willing to bet that you going to say THAT, weren’t you?

As for dragging and dropping, I was referring ONLY to my Vegas, Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro 4 systems. You can certainly drag and drop to your heart’s content with them, but I’d be willing to bet that you didn’t know THAT, either. Avid is nice in a lot of respects, but I find it to be lacking in the sheer intuitiveness that all of my other systems possess. As powerful as that company is, I believe that one day they will swing over to the side of everyone else’s approach in the GUI development. I would hope so, anyway.

I still have clients that bring projects (or FTP them to me) edited in their Avid that need some additional Post done to complete them. I think it is important to have the ability to work in as many NLE platforms as possible, and not just be a one-trick pony like so many of the young turks out there on the marketplace today. Of course, if you are just piddling around at home, and are not that serious about video and audio as a profession, then I can see where the laid back attitude is coming from. But for someone who makes their living on a National or Global scale, we cannot afford to be a snob who doesn’t know about the huge variety of NLE’s and digital posting tools available today. I would even be willing to get a Media100 system if I had the space in my studio. The cost of those systems have really come down since they first came out.

Next time, why not ask first before you pounce on someone’s response (which wasn’t even directly to or at YOU, until NOW. Kinda shows your ego; it’s gotta be about YOU, doesn’t it?), why don’t you chill out and just read a little more, first. Maybe one day you will learn how to use and Avid system. There are some fine tips posted here in this forum from some truly knowledgeable people that blow me away with what they know how to do. The beauty of it is, they (and I) are all willing to share that advice. This is not a forum based on negativity and nastiness, but rather, one of help and support. Please observe that statement next time.

Thanks.
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I’m not going to compare resumes with you. You can have a pissing contest with someone else. I’m perfectly secure in my work.

Anyway, If you go into overwrite segment mode (red) you can move stuff around quite nicely. Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you feel you need to lift before you move it.

And don’t tell people you don’t want them to make assumptions about you (based on your comments) and turn around to make a bunch of assumptions based on nothing, Wal-Mart Lad.

[Tae]

If you want to move to the mac, Buy an extra FW drive to move all your media over to, then copy the project over. That way, it will still exist on your PC “just in case”.

[Tae]

[IMG-INTERACTIVEMEDIAGURUS] “ut again, I use and love ’em both; I hate my Avid, since it is a pain to work with, and I am forced to export as a QT file into “The CleanerXL”; I HATE the weight-lifter icon instead of the ease of use in PPRO and FCP4’s drag-and-drop of clips to move stuff around. Why in the world did they design the app like that? You have to select the beginning and end of the clip you want to move, then click on the weight-lifter guy, THEN you can drag to a new track….that’s a HUGE waste of valuable time. Anyway, either FCP or PPRO are great choices….just get lots of RAM and SATA drives. 250 SATA drives are dirt cheap now compared to 2 years ago, less than a dollar a GB. I get the drives from a wholesaler at around $129 for a 250 GB drive, so putting together an ASUS mobo with a Terabyte of on-board storage is easy and relatively cheap these days.
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It sounds like you would be happier if you learned to use the Avid. The weight lifter icon has nothing to do with the drag and drop features.

[Tae]

I was afraid that was the answer.

Mind-boggling that Apple hasn’t made this a standard feature in FCP.

Why would they? AE is an adobe product.