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

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
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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