This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] interesting survey

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] interesting survey

I once was called in to work on a feature doc that was started on AVID. The machine was unusably slow (there is one clue). I was used to FCP and had not used AVID much (there is another clue) so it felt to me like AVID was not a friendly editor for anything longform / complex. I just know better than to project my FCP expertise and comfort upon my relative lack of AVID expertise at this point in time. If someone asked me to edit on AVID for long enough I'm sure I would become just as comfortable on it again, same for Premiere.

FCP legacy was wonderful to cut longform on, in my case primarily documentaries. Very friendly and fast. No bloatedness or sluggishness ever. I guess it all depends upon your experience.

James

On Dec 10, 2013, at 3:31 PM, Job ter Burg (L2B) wrote:

I once took over a feature doc that they had started on FCP7.
It is NOT a friendly editor for anything longform / complex. Project got bloated, machine unusably slow. Not to mention the gamma shifts they had when bringing in the P2 into FCP.

I think FCP has been a bit more popular in the US than in Europe, still, I know many documentaries here are being cut on FCP.

I just fail to see the reason, to this day.

On 10 dec. 2013, at 18:00, TCurren@aol.com wrote:

Think about this, how many people usually edit on a documentary? Unlike a studio feature with at least 4 folks working on the sam project at the same time (Avid's strength).