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

Sunday, June 6, 2010

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

I guess since I asked this question, I should list a few things I miss when I go back to Avid:

1) The more flexible browser/project window. Avid's limitations in this regard are hurting me a great deal lately, as I've been working in a place where I'm constantly navigating big projects designed to be work areas for a bunch of different editors, and we are constantly navigating to each other's folders and borrowing each other's work. I would really love to be able to open up my work area folder as a separate window, and likewise open the folders of other editors in separate windows. A gal gets tired of down arrowing, and in some cases, even doing something like creating a new bin and navigating past a dozen other folders to get it into yours is unnecessarily difficult.
2) Despite recent MC innovations, I still FCP wins in the selection tool department.
3) Being able to adjust audio levels with a couple of keystrokes. This is a huge time saver in the "don't hurt me" school of audio mixing.
4) In the area of color adjusting with the native NLE tools, I still prefer Avid's basic tool set because of the Curves tool, but I like FCP's flexible order of effects processing. Perhaps it's all the same in the end, since the MC workaround is to nest downstream color effects, but the FCP model feels a little more streamlined to me. And of course, even FCP's basic filters include a secondary, while the basic, non-symphony MC color correction effect does not.
5) How could I forget? Subframe keyframing of audio.
6) Being able to scroll or expand/contract your timeline view while playing. When I go back to Avid I'm guaranteed to try this just once, and be surprised when playback stops.
7) Once upon a time I would have said being able to use QT movies without waiting for import, but Avid is catching up (or has caught up) in this department.

There. Perhaps I'm not such a bigot after all.

Shirley

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Meegan <tom@wovenpixels.com>
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, Jun 6, 2010 7:01 am
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: list of Avid stuff you miss in FCP?

On Jun 6, 2010, at 12:54 AM, Shirley Gutierrez wrote:

> So I put to all you bilingual FCP/MC editors, when you go back to Avid, what

FCP features do you miss?

> Shirley

When I go to Avid from FCP I miss the Motion Tab.

The Motion Tab certainly has limitations. The scaling is questionable and the

key framing is primitive, however the availability of these functions on every

browser or sequence clip is often a time saver.

When the scaling or key framing become a problem, I love to Motion or AE.

As mentioned previously, I also miss composite modes on sequence clips.

Tom Meegan

Woven Pixels, LLC