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Michael GissingRe: A recap of the recaps
by on Jul 1, 2012 at 5:27:01 am

Thanks Chris for confirming what was so bleeding obvious when looking at NLEs that Randy was involved with. Perhaps to placate some, I should have pointed out the shortcomings in FCP legacy. Having worked with some talented software and hardware developers in DAW land, I wonder what all NLE designers and coders really know about the needs of editors.

All NLEs that I have compared to DAWs show too many key strokes, bad ergonomics and every one of them with the exception of Vegas (I haven't tried the latest Adobe offering), have awful audio editing & processing. Database management at the heart of most sound effects libraries in DAWs are hugely simpler and easier to search and retrieve. FCPX is interesting in that it is heading in the right direction for keyword searching. A typical DAW has to manage around 30,000 sound effects, retrieve them with simple search string commands and be able to audition and place them quickly. They have been doing that for over a decade so excuse me for not getting excited about metadata as being somehow new and revolutionary.

How NLEs interface with 9 pin tape machines for capture and playout have always been seriously flawed. They all copied AVID who got it wrong from day one. No matter what people put up as Randy's pedigree in NLE development, I just have to compare the results to simple benchmarks in DAW development that they could have so easily stolen if they truly understood how much better they were from a users point of view.


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