The Godfather

The Godfather returns from the homeland

So editing once again, oh how I have missed you DTU you're arctic weather mixed in with sahara heat waves. All kidding aside it was good to be back doing what I hope to become one day. We have moved away from the Apple's flagship editing software Final Cut Studio and around to the more hands on Avid.

To begin with I was dreading using Avid, I had used it at college a number of years ago, wasn't a happy time in my life!. Avid constantly freaking out because the college was trying to run it on the windows platform with hardware that could barely run MS Word. This left me with a bad taste in my mouth with Avid, we departed not on good terms at all. Well we were never really taught how to use the software all to well anyways. Every bug was fixed by 'Just restart the machine' Not Gavin's crazy diving into sub folders and into the framework to actually sort the problem.

After ten minutes Gavin had worn me down over Avid, I felt more and more aware what the kit was able to do and how it doesn't act like an old man constantly forgetting where he put his shoes like Final Cut can be. It seemed to be more thought out and comfortable about what it was and what it can do, it wasn't pushing for any interface design awards such as FinalCut. The problems I had previously with Avid were in-fact just the kit telling you whats best and assuming you know what your doing.

The class seemed to fly passed, I really enjoyed it. I didn't find myself taking to many notes as I already had a grasp of Avid and just took the time to familiarise myself with it again. I do feel I would use Avid more now over Final Cut given the chance, but I still have a few problems with the kit.

First of all I'm not a fan of having bins pop up in separate windows, this does cause clutter and confuse me as to where things are and are going to be.

Not a fan of having to export then re-import titles just to add them

I could go on but its fairly small things I think I can learn to deal with. Overall I feel I have been pushed more to liking the way Avid deals with media than FinalCut.

Overall and enjoyable day, but still need to work on editing fast, just assembling a timeline then adjusting. I'm too much trying to tweak small details all the time.