Re: Bunim/Murray chooses Avid

[Oliver Peters] "Many folks have viewed FCP, Avid, PPro, AE (insert your preference here) as the one place that they have to do everything. That's changing and the FCP X process has forced everyone (at least in the FCP world) to re-evaluate their post production strategies. FCP X may never be up to the task of doing what Media Composer does in the collaborative editing world. For some the mix will be FCP X for cutting and something else for finishing. Or maybe one tool for short form and another for long form. It just means the world is no longer a simple, neat little place."

While it's true I've worked on many different editors in my time I've never liked switching around, I'm a serial monogomist.

I never liked switching between a Steinbeck and a Moviola for that matter. I'm always amazed when I see editor's shifting back and forth between FCP and Avid. When I have to do that I'm constantly thinking about which keys to hit and what menus to find, and the moment that happen's I've lost my whole flow as an editor.

When I'm cutting well I'm totally unaware of what my hands are doing -- I'm simply thinking about the show and my hands are making the cuts by themselves. When I'm working well like that, if someone asked me what the keystrokes were for a given function I was doing, I often wouldn't know - not consciously at any rate. It takes months of full time use to get to that state with a NLE, and those months, while often enjoyable for the learning, are not nearly as productive. At the end of that time, when I am finally able to edit instinctively, if I have to go back to the previous system I had been using, I would be lost all over again.

So for me, the idea of using different NLE's for different projects would be a nightmare.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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