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AVID's new prototype user interface for Media Composer
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At an AVID event in LA a couple of weeks ago they produced a Media Composer road map, showed a prototype version of a 'possible' new user interface and indulged in some Apple FCP X bashing at the same time
The arrival and subsequent feeling of disappointment with FCP X has left a vacuum in the editing world, who can fill it?When Apple called a hurried press conference at this year’s NAB Broadcasting Conference in Las Vegas there was the usual feeling of excitement over an Apple announcement but also a question over the impromptu style of a major editing product launch – the announcement had to be to do with the next version of Final Cut Pro. When FCP X was finally shipped a couple of months later and received so badly by so many professional editors Apple’s editing competitors must have felt that their moment had arrived.
There is a host of new features in MC5, though some more significant than others, of course.There was a time when an editor cutting on a computer would be sitting in front of an Avid. Some film cutters hung onto their Lightworks – mostly because of the hardware controller that mimicked the Steenbeck – until Tektronix bought the company and, effectively, shut it down.
Thursday, August 4, 2011 at 1:17PM