"So, some of these iMovie concepts - or other concepts outside the "norms" of
Avid and FCP - could provide some real power and speed and accuracy if people
were willing to embrace a new way of doing things. Judging from the reaction to
"SmartTools" that day may not be here, at least for Avid editors. (I'm not
saying the new TOOLS are bad, just that getting "buy-in" from the users is tough
and must be discouraging to the Avid employees that spent time developing them."
The problem with SmartTools was not that they were new, but that they attempted to fix was wasn't broken, and in the process, broke a lot of things that were fixed. Give me a new feature that really adds value (and that value will largely have to be about speed), and I'll be happy to embrace it. As much as I detest the FCP timeline features, there ARE things about that product which help me a great deal, such as it's selection tools, the ability to adjust audio with a keystroke, and its superior browser window. I don't have a problem acknowledging anything that works for me.
In short, I don't loathe newness or difference, I loathe rotten design that slows me down.
Shirley
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@veralith.com>
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, Mar 7, 2011 7:44 am
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Milestone
I was trying to describe this to someone recently - the demise of the dual
screen paradigm - and in a way, it's not that unusual. It may SOUND
revolutionary and crazy, but most edit suites already employee this, at least at
the "client monitor" level, right?
The client - or editor, on his one big, expensive "TV monitor" - sees the source
OR the sequence displayed in a single monitor. As an on-line linear editor, this
is certainly what I was used to before Avid. You saw your source or your
sequence in one big monitor. You may have had some ancillary monitors to display
multiple sources or your record tape at all times, but your MAIN monitoring was
all done in a single monitor.
And of course, probably the model for this rumor is iMovie, which utilizes a
browser, a "sequence" and a single monitor for viewing both source and sequence.
I'd never used iMovie much, and someone was just saying that they could never
use it professionally because of the lack of trim functionality, but I just
played around with it a little bit more over the weekend because I'm going to
teach a "film camp" at my church for high school kids and iMovie is the
cheapest way of getting a half-dozen edit suites up and running and "trained up"
(we already have the Macs). Anyway, I discovered "Precision Editing" on each of
the transitions in iMovie and that interface, though limited in many
professional ways, is actually very intuitive and provides as much fine control
as you could possibly want. I'd always tried to trim with the more "gross"
controls in the timeline, because I thought that that's all there was, but the
precision editor mode is very nice, actually.
So, some of these iMovie concepts - or other concepts outside the "norms" of
Avid and FCP - could provide some real power and speed and accuracy if people
were willing to embrace a new way of doing things. Judging from the reaction to
"SmartTools" that day may not be here, at least for Avid editors. (I'm not
saying the new TOOLS are bad, just that getting "buy-in" from the users is tough
and must be discouraging to the Avid employees that spent time developing them.
Steve Hullfish
contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
co-author: "Color Correction for Video: revised edition," "Avid Xpress Pro
Editing Workshop" and "Avid XpressDV On the Spot"
presenter: Class On Demand's "Complete Training for Avid Media Composer" AND
"Complete Training for Apple Color"
www.classondemand.net/media/final-cut-training/color01.aspx
On Mar 7, 2011, at 9:22 AM, oliverpetersvidy wrote:
> One of the ideas being discussed in the FCP8 rumor mill is a re-imagining of
the UI. Possibly the loss of the dual-screen paradigm. That reminded me of a
past blog post about using custom screen layouts to your advantage. MC allows
that (sort of) with Toolsets, but the current FCP is a bit more freeform. In any
case, here were my thoughts at the time - using layouts other than the typical
viewer/canvas/timeline arrangement.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6jwkpmo
>
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