GD> his friends had been doing video production work with Avid systems
GD> for quite a while, very profitably. When Final Cut Pro came out, he
GD> tried it. Four months later he sold off $200,000 worth of Avid
GD> software and hardware systems for a couple of G5-DP systems and Final
GD> Cut Studio. His report: "$30,000 worth of hardware and software has
GD> replaced $200,000 worth of hardware and software, and I'm getting
GD> twice as much work done per day. I call that a big success."
Did he try Edius? It's another alternative to Avid which I feel is
even better for video work than Final Cut Pro. I have even seen it in
German TV, and it's hard to get these who "cut" their teeth on Avid to
migrate. But a from several people I heard the same, either FCP or
Edius over Avid more and more. When you have to do only 20% of the
keystrokes you would do in Avid, for a full hour-long documentary, you
surely want to migrate :) just for the sake of your fingers...
For me, the Aperture incorporates good ideas, some of them found
already in other software, into a very efficient interface and
workflow. But I will have to play with it to either praise it or damn
it - some of the smallest interface things that aren't visible in the
preview videos might be great or might be terrible. And even Apple has
made some horrible interfaces over the time. But I look to it with
hope, it seems a very nicely thought about workflow solution.
Good light!
fra
