Posted by bernard.newnham on 09/05/05 09:43

NO - though Avid is always the same for the operator whichever version
you have, and I've used about four.
I find that it isn't as ergonomically unsound as LE, but not as good as
FCP. My brother the BAFTA award winning editor, says he has no problem
at all with Avid, but then he uses it every day. My feeling is that if
you don't use it every day - like me - you tend to get sync problems
when fine cutting.
What really matters with editing systems is not how many formats you
can put on the timeline, or how many glitzy transitions it has, nor how
fast it renders 16 layers of video, but what exactly happens when you
insert a bit of vision 8 frames long at 01:23:12:04, and how much
effort in the way of key presses and things to be remembered to make it
happen correctly.
The designers of FCP, who I once met, spent a long time trying other
systems such as Avid and cherry-picking the best from them. This why
JKL etc work in FCP, and why everything stays in sync unless you force
it not to, rather than the other way round.

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