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Originally Posted by tony404
Avid thats cool but the software is sooooo expensive and I heard they are losing market share big time to final cut.
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A friend of mine works at post house in LA. Remember that crazy christian lady on the wife-swap shows last year? He told me about that footage before it aired.
All those guys edit on Avid systems. And they do like 90% of all reality shows.
I've been watching all the online tutorials on Avid. I dunno man.. it looks cool, but it doesn't seem to edit with the speed that I'm used to. In vegas I can toss footage onto the timeline and edit in real time and as fast as I can think. As the footage is playing, I'm a few seconds out in front of the footage tweaking it. I cut and recut and recut and recut... over and over until I get close, then I go in for a few tweaks and watch it a few hundred more times to make sure it's perfect, tweaking it almost every time I rewatch it, until it's exactly how I want it.
The other programs, FC and Avid seem to make you get it right the first time. Like tweaking it seems to be more of a pain in the ass.
In vegas I'll bring in an entire scene, then I'll take (for example) a quick cut of a dick going into a pussy, then grab a piece later of the dick slapping the pussy. So I'll cut those two pieces out and drag them to an upper layer timeline and stick them side by each to test how they ... fuck it, let's just say I have my own methods.... (yes this was much longer but I edited it down)
In Avid or in FC it doesn't seem that easy, it's like you have to watch every frame of every clip from beginning to end and make end points, and then create subclips and drop those onto your TL in order of they way you want them and the most you can do is re arrange the subclips and then drop on some transitions (cross fades mostly). Where in Vegas you can drop them into the TL and slide them around and get what you want. You can spin the footage, flash the footage, glow and blur it at will.. but in FC and AVID you seem to have to rely on AE for that stuff.
Basically.. in Vegas I use the TL as the scrubber and trimmer, where in AVID and FC you don't. You actually use a trimmer independent of the TL. Kinda of an extra step as far as I can tell.
... Or am I just not understanding FC and AVID?