I think I might recommend CS5 Production Suite to new editors instead. How many of us use only a video editor? Almost everyone also uses Pshop, Illustator and AE. Throw in Premiere, and a newbie can learn editing and all of the associated skills of a modern editor. Once someone really decides to go professional, other software can be taken on to build on the basic knowledge.
These days are definitely an opportunity for someone to grab the market back.
Curtis Nichols
Señor Editor
PCS Production Co.
Irving, Tx.
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From: Steve Hullfish
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: The FCPX thread
I helped a local high school kid last night, because he's going to start at Tribeca FIlm School and he figured he needed to learn Avid.
He'd been cutting on FCP and had had the ed. version of Avid MC for six months and hadn't made much progress in working with it.
I was thinking about the total hell that all film schools and colleges with film and TV programs must be going through right now.
You can't possibly teach kids on FCP 7. Not only can't you GET a copy, but what's the use of training on something that's EOL.
Even if you had the pathetically misinformed view that FCP X was professional, you need to get an instructor up to speed to teach a completely new software tool over the summer and design a new curriculum around this new software.
The only answer is Avid. If someone was INCREDIBLY intelligent at Avid - actually, only semi-intelligent - they would do a Summer 2011 only educational discount on MC5.5 down to $100. To institutions, I'd make it FREE. Why the heck not? You would recapture an entire generation of editors in a single summer! That's got to be worth a fortune. Make it INEVITABLE that institutions teach editing THIS YEAR on Avid. This is a MAJOR opportunity and THIS IS THE WEEK TO DO IT.
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