Avid takes time to learn and master, but once you know how to use it you would never want to use another NLE. Premiere is intuitive and user friendly, but editing is not just about moving clips around in the 's about way more than that. It's good for small projects with not a lot of footage and a quick turnaround like the instance you described above. Vegas is for amateur editors that cut Call of Duty videos and post them on YouTube.and Premiere is for all of the people that just want to be able to sit down and put together a video. No legitimate editor is using FCP 7 on a real project, it hasn't been updated in years man.it's dead. She was very skilled, so I highly doubt it was her fault (though I don't know for sure because I just don't know Avid enough to make a judgement call).įinal Cut 7 is a dead software.anyone using it is out of their mind. I don't know which version of Avid she was working on, but I know she had trouble with the camera format (or rather, ingesting the clips due to the camera format), the key didn't turn out usable, she couldn't do some of the effects we had planned on and so on.
So I fired up Premiere on my Laptop and got it done just in the knick of time.
I remember when we were shooting a sketch for a live TV show that was about to go on air in 4 hours (back then) on greenscreen - we had to ingest the raw material, key the thing, do some minimal tracking and overlay a couple effects (some pre-rendered with alpha) and after two hours our dedicated editor (I was a producer) who knew her shit well said she couldn't do it within the deadline. It's so convoluted and there are so many aspects of it that hinder efficiency/productivity in my opinion. I can handle anything from Edius to Sony Vegas to FinalCut and Premiere without any issues whatsoever, but Avid just doesn't make sense to me. I'm not very familiar with Avid, that is true, but that's also one of the reasons I hate it - it's not intuitive (therefore takes me longer to do the job at hand) and works way different than most other editing suits.
The latter mostly used Avid, however everyone else was using either Final Cut Pro 7 or Premiere Pro. I've worked for a couple post houses as well as TV stations and big broadcasters. Personally, I'd have a very difficult time going back to CS6. These are just to name a few that come to mind.
Some features are essential when doing roundtrip exports to color grading software like Davinci Resolve:
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