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

We've gone back to 5.5 , we'll wait for a couple more updates and return to 6.
Owen

On Feb 20, 2012, at 7:17 AM, Roger wrote:

> 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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> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >>>>
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> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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> >
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> >
> >
> >
>
> With best wishes,
> Roger Shufflebottom
> rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk
> +44 7973 543 660
>
>

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