Saturday, February 18, 2012

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

 

My (naive) speculation is they needed a bunch of extra people for the
initial port to 64-bit, who were laid off when that work was completed.

Cheers,
--Michael

On 12-02-18 4:41 AM, haus wrote:
>
> V1 or not, I certainly think that some of this can be attributed to
> slimmer staff doing more an more...like the Q4 results showed, Avid
> made a profit by cutting expenses,not raising revenue. Sometimes this
> can be the result of too much cutting...
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "trevatpc" <trevatpc@...> wrote:
> >
> > ... and they laid off a bunch of folks fairly recently... I hope
> they weren't the one's who knew how to fix things.
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "Terence Curren" <tcurren@> wrote:
> > >
> > > It's a V1 product...
> > >
> > > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.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:
> > > >
> > > > > 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
> <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.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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> > > > >>
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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