Re: One year later... NOW: standardizing on one tool or using them all?

[Jeremy Garchow] "Adobe's communication is commendable.... Can't wait to see what they do with it."

I think one can see pretty clearly what they have done with it - it looks pretty damn good? there's a beta tester down the thread saying 6 is as solid as a rock, it has avid scale trimming tools, FCPX bin scrubbing (with a viewer), genuine USP tasties like warp stabiliser (don't you just love that thing? for promos?)

I have been pretty consistently rooting for it, but I don't actually think this release requires rooting for. The toolset is ferocious, its 64 bit, cross platform, its opening into CL..

so say as an editor - he said grandly... your concerns would be asset acquisition, management and categorisation, timeline/modal trimming for story and output no?-

this thing dynamically trims as well as Avid, say the people who actually know what they are doing, I know I can operate in the timeline as I have in FCP, and instead of being in FCP, I'm in a kissing cousin of AE and PS?

But, the thing I find genuinely interesting about all this, is that adobe look to have analysed and fully replicated Avid's renowned dynamic trim workflow, in a heavily compressed competition driven timeframe.

And this after ten years of Apple completely failing to do anything like the same.

I never knew, until I saw the full Avid demos a few months ago, how obviously critical dynamic trimming could be, and.. it's interesting to say the least, that Apple never got it together in ten years, the current incarnation X with the precision trimmer has nothing like it, in fact worse, given the conflict between the skimmer and the timeline marker, the play forward, slap spacebar stop to mark doesn't work to my understanding?

bottom line: Adobe put an entire best in class editing trim architecture together quick smart for uncomplicated, competitive reasons.

If I'm going to be a prisoner with a dilemma as Hurd has put it - as an editor, I would far, far sooner be a prisoner of Adobe than Apple.

http://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos
http://www.ogallchoir.net
promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics