Friday, February 17, 2012

[Avid-L2] Re: Got to playing with V6 a bit...

 

It's a V1 product...

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Jay Mahavier <jay_mahavier@...> wrote:
>
> It's the lack of attention to the details on v6 that is the most frustrating. Yes, I can work around a lot of this stuff, but I thought we as users had spent years working with Avid so that they could refine Media Composer into a incredible tool. Part of being an incredible tool is having all the controls where you want to find them, and having the feedback from the system where you need it.
>
> There are a lot of little, but painful, flaws in v6.
>
> I'm looking at starting a new project in May. If fixes have not come out by then I will probably roll back to v5.3.3. Which is a shame.
>
> Jay
>
>
> On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:11 PM, jeffsengpiehl wrote:
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> > Park your cursor over the play button and do nothing.
> >
> > Then hit play.
> >
> > Notice the difference? Nope.. nobody does.
> >
> > the FUNCTIONALITY of the play button is to have the icon glow distinctively when you are in play mode. This has been a fundamental feature of Composer since the Quadra 950 days - Take 100 edit systems and connect 'em up to 30 decks- you sure as shit better have real confidence of the mode you're in- or things are going to get real messy real fast.
> >
> > And I kinda don't care about the Avid forum for this subject. These are the sorts of posts that used to get pulled down - Speculation on the future they would say.
> >
> > It's a bug, plain and simple- might be a bug on purpose, but it's a bug that needs fixin'.
> >
> > JDS
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Pat Horridge" <pat@> wrote:
> >>
> >> Yup I'd call it a cosmetic change. It doesn't change the functionality at
> >> all.
> >>
> >> I know when I've hit the play key and when I'm playing. I haven't missed the
> >> green indicator at all.
> >>
> >> I can appreciate that others may find comfort and a need for it but not me.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> We also lost super bin of course and there have been numerous other changes.
> >> Some great some not so great.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> But again for me the priority needs to be continuing to tighten up the new
> >> code and working on the new features.
> >>
> >> The Avid community has a features request forum for users to add their
> >> feedback on changes to the software feel free to add the request.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Pat Horridge
> >> Technical Director, Trainer, Avid Certified Instructor
> >> VET
> >> Production Editing Digital Media Design DVD
> >> T +44 (0)20 7505 4701 | F +44 (0)20 7505 4800 | E <mailto:pat@>
> >> pat@ |
> >> www.vet.co.uk | Lux Building 2-4 Hoxton Square London N1 6US
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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