Re: how do ya use yer Avid?

Hey Grinner!

I use my AVID as an overpriced capture station to send clips to After Effects and 3D Studio Max. Our corporate switch from EDIT machines to AVID Newscutters has cut our production capability by more than 2/3. They are slow, crash often (and often with non-reproduceable crashes), capture slowly, when they do at all, and are slow as molasses. I can see why AVID canned the Adrenaline line, but I can't see why any company with a conscience sold it in the first place (I think I know the answer to that). Our PCI bus EDIT boxes ran circles around the Newscutters, even though they were of a vintage which was 7 years earlier. I just don't get it. Our parent company has bought into AVID technology in a big way (ISIS storage, playback servers, etc.) so I don't see any way out of the mess, other than buying the Adobe Creative Suite, and just capturing on the Newscutters, which is just what we are doing.

Joe Bourke
Art Director / WMUR-TV