Re: Real World Editing: From Avid to FCP and Back Again

couple answers: Bunim/Murray is using most of their existing infrastructure of MacPro systems, as well, their existing capture cards. Avid has opened up the media composer to work with 3rd party capture cards with version 6.0. I am more agnostic to the approach that a good editor can cut with anything, yet once you start looking at coordinating a high capacity production company with multiple productions with massive amounts of footage, the MediaComposer/Isis has some significant production efficiencies. Most, but not all of the larger unscripted programming in Hollywood is on Avid. You'd be surprised how many production companies have Unity with 25 seats of MediaComposer with close to twenty of those systems using MediaComposer software without the I/O.
Bunim/Murray went through a detailed and well thought out analysis around the change.

Mike Cavanagh
President/Founder
Key Code Media, Inc.
http://www.keycodemedia.com