arrestthisman
Well-known member
I've edited in AVID for five years, and each year I get progressively closer to taking my own life in an orgy of blood.
That said, if it doesn't make you want to kill your neighbors dog, Avid DOES offer paying jobs. It's a skill that not too many people have. It is an industry standard, and learning Avid is a great way to learn the skill of editing.
That said, FCP is so much better. For one man bands, or small productions, FCP is leaps and bound more powerful.
The only thing that Avid still has is better media management, and up until this release of FCP, it had much better color correction.
I will no longer edit in avid after this last project I'm working on that I hope will be done soon.
After that it's FCP all the way. Do I regret learning avid, yes and no. Yes in that my therapy bills are higher, and no because it's fast, it's intuitive, and it's a skill that can earn you money, and/or add to your resume.
The problem with AVID is simply that it is the worst programmed software ever made. It's about as stable as a Java popup from a free porn website. But the interface is butter. I've run it on three systems, two of which were qualified, and it crashed all the same. But it's so fast, even with all of the reboots, it still can beat FCP for long form in certian circumstances.
I've tried Media Composer, and literally, the first time I booted it (on a friend's rig, I've always run xpress), it crashed importing an Mpeg file. Reboot. Crash again. Convert mpeg to DV file in free transcoder... works like a charm.
The other thing, and I don't have a lot of experience in FCP with this, is that footage quality can be an issue in certian releases of Avid. It recompresses footage many times, and there was a bug for a long time where it DID not discard the renders and final out from scratch, it would final out comps that have been compressed 5+ times. It also, in the 4.5 release would routinely treat progressive footage as interlaced if AVX1.5 plugins were used. This was a major bug that was never fixed to the best of my knowledge. It caused me a lot of problems because of a project I worked on using a DVX100.
Avid treats their customers very poorly. I hate them. But for some projects you just can beat it.
ahhh..... I'm done.... and feeling feint.
That said, if it doesn't make you want to kill your neighbors dog, Avid DOES offer paying jobs. It's a skill that not too many people have. It is an industry standard, and learning Avid is a great way to learn the skill of editing.
That said, FCP is so much better. For one man bands, or small productions, FCP is leaps and bound more powerful.
The only thing that Avid still has is better media management, and up until this release of FCP, it had much better color correction.
I will no longer edit in avid after this last project I'm working on that I hope will be done soon.
After that it's FCP all the way. Do I regret learning avid, yes and no. Yes in that my therapy bills are higher, and no because it's fast, it's intuitive, and it's a skill that can earn you money, and/or add to your resume.
The problem with AVID is simply that it is the worst programmed software ever made. It's about as stable as a Java popup from a free porn website. But the interface is butter. I've run it on three systems, two of which were qualified, and it crashed all the same. But it's so fast, even with all of the reboots, it still can beat FCP for long form in certian circumstances.
I've tried Media Composer, and literally, the first time I booted it (on a friend's rig, I've always run xpress), it crashed importing an Mpeg file. Reboot. Crash again. Convert mpeg to DV file in free transcoder... works like a charm.
The other thing, and I don't have a lot of experience in FCP with this, is that footage quality can be an issue in certian releases of Avid. It recompresses footage many times, and there was a bug for a long time where it DID not discard the renders and final out from scratch, it would final out comps that have been compressed 5+ times. It also, in the 4.5 release would routinely treat progressive footage as interlaced if AVX1.5 plugins were used. This was a major bug that was never fixed to the best of my knowledge. It caused me a lot of problems because of a project I worked on using a DVX100.
Avid treats their customers very poorly. I hate them. But for some projects you just can beat it.
ahhh..... I'm done.... and feeling feint.