Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Making great products to serve professionals is our lifeblood

Vegas could be an interesting option - it's got some very good features, and
can even do a lot of what broadcast editors need. I'm not sure if it has the
ability to work in a collaborative environment though, and it needs more
support of interchange features.

Lightworks has the basics, and some industry respect, but the software (to
me anyway) still feels a little "toyish".

Blender is an amazing application, and has some powerful compositiing tools
and can even edit, but it's a 3D app above all else, and isn't really well
suited to serious video work.

Adobe has the most to gain - they have a product that is capable of much
more than people give it credit for and now people are starting to realise
that. Avid's place as a serious NLE is well known, but Adobe has never
really been considered in that same space - Premiere seems the natural
replacement for FCP in many installations.

As for schools, which he mentions, any school that moves to FCP X can't
really be taken seriously in terms of training people to edit in the
industry. Avid, FCP7 or Premiere at least teach a basic paradigm that is
common to almost all NLEs, and one that can be adapted to FCP X - whereas
FCP X uses a paradigm that doesn't necessarily translate well to everything
else.

Dylan Reeve
http://dylanreeve.com/

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:20 AM, David Chmura <dchmura.lists@gmail.com>wrote:

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>
>
> An odd little article... at one point he states: "The final beneficiary
> insofar as investment is concerned would be Sony with its Vegas Pro 10
> editor." Huh? He also mentions a number of micro-niche players like
> Lightworks, Blender and NewTek Tricaster. Blender?
>
>
> On Jul 9, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Wilson Chao wrote:
>
> > That's the first time I've ever seen Avid compared to a communist
> general. ;-)
> >
> > The columnist, respected tech analyst John Dvorak, writes "Avid is the
> > Vo Nguyen Giap of video editing suites." He means this as a
> > compliment, as Giap, the main strategist of North Vietnam's wars of
> > independence,.survived decades of struggle against the French and then
> > the Americans to eventually triumph.
> >
> > What Dvorak neglects to mention is that Giap was a brilliant military
> > tactician who commanded an army of fanatically dedicated troops.
> > Here's hoping that Avid is similarly brilliant and dedicated.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 5:35 PM, paul.hartel <phartel@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Link to a Marketwatch article just out today on the whole FCP issue.
> >>
> http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-final-cut-x-opens-door-for-rivals-2011-07-08?link=MW_story_investinginsight
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