Re: Evan Schechtman @RadicalMedia - The State of the NLE - recorded a few days before NAB

[Jack Guthrey] "I'm interested in why they went FCPX (I contend it's X not "Ten" - "Ten" requires an "Eight") when Avid MC6 received heaps more praise."

Maybe he's not direct but he alludes to that in his presentation in his criticisms of MC6. It seems to around the rigidity of the workflow. I've personally used Avid for its first 12 years of existence as an editor, engineer and trainer (to some extent) and that rigidity is one of the reasons I'm not interested in jumping back to it. They've made outstanding improvements and Symphony at $999 as a crossgrade is a spectacular bargain but, for me, the core of what makes Avid and Avid is something I don't wont to work with.

Evan didn't grow up on Avid as I did so I can imagine it's "paradigm" is that much more difficult and as a facility manager, problem something he doesn't want to invest in as far as implementation goes.

There is one thing a facility manager may have to contend with that apparently isn't a major concern for Evan. That's the freelancer pool available. Obviously there is a large pool of excellent Avid freelancers. So one's decision as to which NLE to go to may involve the talented resource pool.

In Evan's case, he had mentioned to me in the early days he had 30 seats of FCPX and they weren't being used for paying jobs. One might surmise that his approach was to start people training early on FCPX before it was up to the feature development that would allow him to implement.