Re: Avid and FCP

I don't think I've met anyone with the opposite problem. Most Avid users are perfect happy with the stability and usability of their system (assuming it's a supported configuration etc) - but look to FCP for it's extra features and lower cost-of-entry for HD work (certainly why we dropped cash on an FCP setup).

If your work doesn't call for those things, or if that stuff exists further down the production workflow (in an online for example) then Avid tends to be rock solid.

There are always solutions (same is true of Avid problems) but there often comes a point (like Daniel said in his first post) where it no longer seems worth the time and effort to consistently be working around things when another option may offer a more suitable solution.

That said, you don't have to choose... Avid will run happily on the same system (although Avid does not yet support Leopard) and the cost of entry for Avid has dropped significantly recently, and there's a pretty good second-hand market for Avid Mojo hardware if you want to go that way.

Right now I am using Avid MC 2.8 on our Mac Pro, later today I'll be using FCP 6.0.2 on the same system.