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

Monday, April 18, 2016

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

Just to be clear, it's not that I can't find stuff. The tools I use
regularly are mapped to my keyboard too. BTW, I also use Shift+E for
Export. My criticism is rooted in the fact that Avid uses the "not
enough resources" excuse (probably mapped to Shift+D on their keyboard)
and then squanders those resources.
--J.B.

P.S. If they want to use their programming resources on aesthetic stuff,
write a console command to restore the Weightlifter.

Roger Shufflebottom rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk [Avid-L2] wrote:
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> File>Output or R-click>Output sub menu. I, too like the new logic. I
> have Export programmed to Shift+E anyway!
> With Best Wishes, Roger Shufflebottom +44 7973 543 660
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> *From:* "jb30343@windstream.net [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> *To:* Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com; bigfish <bigfish@pacbell.net>
> *Sent:* Monday, 18 April 2016, 0:27
> *Subject:* Re: RE: [Avid-L2] Re: Can't afford engineers here...
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> Export is gone too. This is the same mentality as getting rid of
> the weightlifter. My conclusion is that Avid thinks we all edit
> at about three cuts per hour and search through all the menus
> every time we do anything. I assume they no longer have any actual
> editors in decision making roles. JB
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> Sent from myMail for iOS
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> Sunday, April 17, 2016, 5:02 PM -0500 from Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>:
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> 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
> *To:* Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> *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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