Re: [Avid-L2] list of Avid stuff you miss in FCP?

On Jun 6, 2010, at 1:27 AM, Barry Stevens wrote:

>
> On 6 Jun 2010, at 00:15, Philip Hodgetts wrote:
>
>> The trouble is, when you're designing software, you often have no
>> idea
>> what will be needed in 10 years time.
>
> Yes you do. And Yes we did.
> Media Composer V3 (1992-3) contained the collective thoughts of
> effectively 1000 man years of (in my case linear) editing, but still
> making and altering sequences.

Media Composer has had to be rebuilt as well as the code bases have
changed. It is NOT possible to know what code is going to need to do
in 10 or 15 years.

Which is why Media Composer was so bad at non-tape sources until 4.0
and 5. When they rebuilt the app because this wasn't planned for 20
years ago.

philip

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