Like I said, I was very interested in the article and the fact that someone who had been on Avid and left it - basically in the early days - would be back around, having been essentially abandoned by Apple.
I teach over at Turner quite a bit, so I know that they used to be an all Avid shop and switched to largely FCP in the last few years and now are contemplating their next move - back to Avid or over to PremierePro? I am not privy to that decision-making process, but I know that they're abandoning FCP.
Sorry that the "at CNN" thing wasn't obvious. I went back and re-read it and that's still not the way it sounds in my head as a reader. I can believe that CNN didn't consider it until 1993. News and TV station people didn't really get Avid editing back then. My station bought one, which is how I got started, but that's because I was the guy driving the decision-making process. Media 100 was the other contender back then, if I remember correctly.
Our local TV news editor union famously decided NOT to include NLE editing in their contract back around that time, which was a pretty deadly decision in hindsight. Of course, even back then, when one of their union guys told me that, I said to him, "You just slit your own throats."
Steve Hullfish
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On Nov 10, 2011, at 9:14 PM, walter wrote:
> Hi Steve,
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> If you read the article I clearly state that I last edited on Avid in 1995 at CNN and that I was in the first class of editors in 1993. I thought the connection to the first class of editors and "at CNN" would be obvious to the reader, but apparently not. Avid was introduced to the company in 1992 / 1993 and quite frankly, none of the editors were very excited about it. I always like playing with new things so I was in the first class of I believe 10 editors to take class in CNN Center to learn this "Avid thing."
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> I know for a fact that I delivered the first piece to air on CNN that was cut on an Avid. Of course it wasn't finished in Avid since the quality was too poor for broadcast, but EDL to CMX and we delivered the piece on Network Earth.
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> 1995 was the last time I touched Avid or even wanted anything to do with Avid. Now we're on the edge of turning our entire shop over to Avid pending more testing. I thought that was pretty interesting.
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