Avid Launches Media Composer 6, Symphony 6, NewsCutter 10

[deeter]

You can export AAF/OMF with Automatic Duck

http://www.automaticduck.com/products/pefcp/

FCPX now supports XML.

http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/software-update.html

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Actually, Automatic Duck is no more as it is a free download and the owner is now working for Adobe. This is not good. If you were a PRO, how confident are you going to feel. My impression is the owner and his company was highly regarded in the industry from comments on the Cow. Now that he is with Adobe, PROs may not feel confident with FCPX and the future.

FCPX does not fully support XML. It is crippled in its current form.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3340755?start=0&tstart=0

See Walter Biscardi's evaluation on the state of FCPX. FCPXML may never be fully compatible given the fundamental differences in FCPX with traditional timeline NLEs.

http://library.creativecow.net/biscardi_walter/Post-Production-comparisons/1

For anyone wanting to be educated on all of the NLEs, just go to The Creative Cow website. You can follow the history of what the PROs are saying about FCPX since being announced. Most of them are upset and that is why there is a forum called "Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate". It has become a forum where a lot of PROs are venting.

 

[748s]

I bet most of the people who are complaining about Final Cut X are not professional themselves and would be better off with iMovie

What ever happened to the good old 'It's not the tool, it's the artist' saying.

LULzzzz
Walter Murch on FCPX

 

[AppleScruff1]

LULzzzz
Walter Murch on FCPX

Good link.

 

[iBug2]

Indeed, I always care about what Munch has to say on NLE's. Good thing that he says he's optimistic about the future of FCPX. Now it's really up to Apple to push forward and do it fast.

 

[macnerd93]

I love sweeping, blanket statements like this, probably from someone who has never owned Media Composer and probably owns a cracked copy of the others. How is AVID slow? I've had less problems scrubbing audio frame by frame and keeping up with AVID then FCP.

Each NLE has advantages and disadvantages, I own Adobe and Avid both for this reason. One good thing about the new Final Cut X is the rendering on the fly, that does speed things up and points to the future.

AVID's strength was always stability and media management for large projects. Not having crashes and media offline notices keeps speed up. But one of the best features about recent Media Composer versions has been the ability to mix source frame rates and types in one timeline, WITHOUT any transcoding or re rendering time lost. Just drop in and use. WIth documentary being made of endless clips from endless sources, this is a real timesaver.

And then phrasefind, this is a nifty piece of software that associates script text and the source clip instantly. Again, a real timesaver for scripted work or documentary interviews that are transcribed. Just search for the words you want, and bam up comes the clip.

As for clunky, fast editors work off of keyboard shortcuts, an editor can be equally fast on all the NLEs as far as I'm concerned.

Half the time when someone thinks an editing system is slow or clunky, its the media access speeds that are the issue. Raid through a pci or thunderbolt vs one external USB 2 or firewire drive and bam, problem solved.

I use a G-Tech FW 800 drive for all my edit storage, I studied media at college so why on earth do I need a cracked copy of any software, I bought both suites legitimately.

I had a lot of problems with Avid in the past used it on one of the colleges windows xp machines, it just ran beyond slow, whereas Premiere on the same machine ran flawlessly. FCP is for me though.

I Never did try Avid it in OS X mind, I expect it could have been faster since my MBP has 8gig of ram, but always used FCP & Premiere since. Have now since left college and am at University studying Law & Criminology so don't really need to bother with editing much now :L

 

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