Or, as it might be, version 18 . . .
On 18 Feb 2012, at 00:46, Mark Spano wrote:
> Can we all stop calling these products "V1"?
>
> The new version of Avid Media Composer is version 6. If they wanted to
> emphasize how we shouldn't view a new release as an extension of a toolset
> we all know and use, *they* would have called it version 1.
>
> Same goes for FCP. It's version 10. I call BS every time I hear that
> version 1 business. Rename the software if it's a baby.
>
> That said, version 6 shouldn't lose features from version 5 unless there's
> a new workflow directive. Anything not in that realm is called a bug or a
> missing feature. There is an implicit expectation that software upgrades
> with sequential version numbers are building on previous tools. Yes, I know
> that there's rewriting going on. That isn't an excuse for leaving things
> out if they're important and intrinsic to the workflow already established
> by the succession of releases.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Terence Curren <tcurren@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> 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:
>>>
>>>> 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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With best wishes,
Roger Shufflebottom
rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk
+44 7973 543 660
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