This IS the Avid L2: RE: [Avid-L2] Re: Can't afford engineers here...

Sunday, April 17, 2016

RE: [Avid-L2] Re: Can't afford engineers here...

For the past week I've spent some testing time on 8.5.1 and 8.4. Today it dawned on me one of the problems I'm seeing could be directly related to this thread. In my recent test when I jump on 8.5.1 and right click on a clip to relink or transcode or get to source settings etc... it seems the entire pulldown menu order is flipped or at least in a completely upside down feeling order compared to Avid 8.4 and all Avid's before. I use relink all the time and now it's at the bottom of the right click when it use to be nearer to the top the top IIRC. Consolidate and transcode use to be in the top 3 and now it's near the bottom etc... I may not have the exact location correct but it feels virtually upside down from my past decades on Avid.

Now this isn't the end of the world but it strikes me as the kind of programming changes you get when you outsource software development and enhancement to 3rd party companies that don't have a long history with the piece of software they are modifying. It also smacks of programmers that aren't sympathetic to the operators needs and concerns. I'm not saying I know this for a fact but WTF? There is no reason to change the order of functions of the right click menu. Adding new features to the list is fine but changing the basic order is just a big FU to the user base IMHO. If I could see any reason behind the reordering than I wouldn't be spouting of but I read it as new programmers who now coding but not editing. At the very least you don't reprogram a Typewriter Program and move the "E" key for no reason.

Can anyone shed any light on why the list order is so drastically different in 8.5.1?

---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <bigfish@...> wrote :

But this seems like Avid themselves are using another company to program the Avid software and work on development. AMA was assigned to the camera manufacturers because of the constant changes in codecs etc... The avid core software is what it sounds like is being farmed out to this company. Perhaps I'm not completely understanding the relationship it just seems less than optimal for the core software of the NLE.

---In avid-l2@yahoogroups.com, <avid@...> wrote :

I have no special knowledge, but this seems to me to be a way for other people to integrate 3^rd party software into Avid. Think about AMA – they have made the camera makers responsible to develop new AMA plug ins to support whatever crazy camera formats they come up with. My guess is that some users of a certain scale want to get under the hood and make use of the Media Composer framework.

Dave Spraker

Principal, spraker.tv

Northwest Territory Manager, Western Rep Associates

dave@...
(503) 897-0250

From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 2:37 PM
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Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Can't afford engineers here...

Does this mean that Avid is outsourcing development of Avid software? I skimmed a bit of the link and there is collaboration between the two companies. It would seem a daunting task to keep all the software developers on the same or similar page when everything is in house. Spreading that across to another company would seem to add to confusion and mistakes, but that is certainly not my area of expertise.

---In avid-l2@yahoogroups.com, <tcurren@...> wrote :

It's nice when the folks you outsource to sponsor your parties. :-/

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