- Avid media composer 8 review upgrade#
- Avid media composer 8 review full#
- Avid media composer 8 review pro#
I can tell you that when I go from FCP to Avid MC, I miss this ability a lot. Before this release, you had to click on the RED select arrow (overwrite), or YELLOW select arrow (insert) before you could drag media around the timeline. This new feature adds “Final Cut Pro-like” timeline work habits to MC5.
Avid media composer 8 review full#
If you want to see a full list of these features, you can see my NAB preview here. Media Composer 5.0 (MC5) has a LOT of new features, and I tried to test as many as I could, but I limited myself to the key areas that most impacted me and my editing style and workflow. And I got a chance to get more comfortable with how the application works. And in doing this I not only got to play with all the new features, but also help work out the bugs. And their NEW game is…well, listening to us, adding new features VERY quickly, and offering their Media Composer line as pretty inexpensive editing solution.Īvid was kind enough to offer me the opportunity to beta test Media Composer 5.0. So, Avid’s old game of a) not listening to their user base, b) not implementing new features quickly enough and c) costing a lot of money has changed. And historically a fully decked out Avid MC would cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Avid media composer 8 review upgrade#
Why? Because many large facilities and old guard post houses would be looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars for new upgrades, because they’d need to upgrade 12-40 bays, including hardware to view on client monitors. So fast that I personally have told them that they really need to slow down. In fact, they are listening to us so much now, and taking our advice so much now, that they come out with a new MAJOR release of Avid Media Composer every 6-9 months or so. And when we asked them to support the new camera formats…in less time than their usual record of a year or two, they listened to us. When we asked Avid to add that to Media Composer…low and behold, in Media Composer 3.0.5…there it was. It is Select All Downstream, or Upstream…or between IN and OUT points.
Avid media composer 8 review pro#
There was this great tool that we users of Final Cut Pro really rely on, and love. Avid is not only listening to the editors and end users of their products (meaning post supervisors and facilites managers too), but they are actively seeking out our advice…and incorporate it into their latest releases.
If we wanted a feature, they got around to giving it to us eventually, but they’d charge us $14,000 to “activate the new feature.” They got comfortable in their position and ignored the needs of their base.īut now the game HAS changed. But then they started to slip, and get lazy…or just plain neglectful. They listened to the needs of the editors and incorporated many things they needed to do in early versions of Media Composer. The game Avid is changing is the one it has been playing with it’s user base. Hmmm…well, I might actually have to change my thoughts on the term “game changer,” because it is actually changing the game, just not the game you all are thinking about. But, what it is doing is adding more tools to make it a better application. And I don’t think that it is changing the editing game. OK, I am NOT going to say that Avid Media Composer 5.0 is a “game changer.” Mainly because I hate that term.
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