Re: Edit Assistant, I was learning FCP7...

Avid, Premiere, and FCP are all really similar on a basic level. When you're editing basic stuff, or off-lining without effects and such, there's not much difference and you can pick one up quickly.

However, the real learning curve is when you go past the basics. Avid and FCP handle effects completely different and for some things, there isn't really a correlation.

When you start dealing with promoting effects, advanced keyframing, painting, image handling, sequence to sequence editing, advance trimming and such, you start to grasp why it takes more than a couple of days/weeks/months to use it well.

Most ASLers (Avid as a Second Language) tend to try and make Avid work like FCP. Which is fine at a simple level, but terribly inefficient in more complex workflows. It's like they're driving a car in 2nd gear.

Andy

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