On Oct 20, 2005, at 10:50 AM, Frantisek wrote:
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? ...
I certainly don't know. I don't know the fellow, just got this
information from my brother. Nor do I have any experience whatsoever
with Avid or FCP ... video editing is something I have never done at
all.
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.
There have been (and are) some clunkers for sure. Personally, I hate
iPhoto's single window design, hardly ever even start it up and then
only when I just want a batch of cheap 4x6 inch prints. iMovie isn't
much better, but then the amount of use I've given iMovie and iDVD is
too little to comment with any credibility.
Godfrey
