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This was a Question asked by one of my first readers! What do you guys think about it?
That depends on if you are a video editing professional or a beginner. Avid is industry standard when it comes to non-liner editing. Most TV and Video peoduction houses are using the avid line of products. However; Final cut is moving in and becoming more widely used. There are some pros and cons for both. I am not as versed in final cut, but I do know how the program works. I am more proficient in avid because I work on avid editors all the time. If you are a beginner, I would suggest you learn the basics with another product such as windows movie maker, vegas video, to name a couple. If you are a professional then avid, final cut, or adobe premier are the high end programs. I do suggest the adobe premier for ease of use and learning purposes, plus the cost of the programs may be a factor on which you can afford to use.
"AVID and Final Cut are fundamentally the same with differences on how “user friendly” they are. They both have similar layouts with the differences being in the bins, tabs, and effect adjustments. Both have the typical preview and program viewers with customizable layouts to fit your needs. Final Cut tends to label things more clearly than AVID using plain English rather than some video jargon. Doing basic functions tends to be more user friendly in Final Cut as well (i.e. making clips “snap” together back to back and clicking and dragging clips into your timeline) But to speak on AVID’s behalf, as soon as you get used to the icons and the basic fundamentals of the program, AVID is very easy to use. Right now I’m truthfully partial to AVID simply because I have been using it so long that I can whip through the commands easily. I have Final Cut Express on my home Mac and switching between the two can get kind of confusing at times especially with keyboard commands. If you aren’t going to be doing much more than putting video clips back to back without anything fancy I would just stick with extremely BASIC programs such as movie maker. It would be wise to look at a couple tutorials online for beginners for each program (AVID & FC). If you really want to see if you can get the hang of Final Cut, sometimes at Bestbuy they have theirs Macs set up with FC on them. Just take a few minutes to play with the display model ha-ha. See what you think. AVID is a little harder to come by. Hope this helps. I am happy to answer specifics about each program if needed."
This was a Question asked by one of my first readers! What do you guys think about it?
ReplyDeleteThat depends on if you are a video editing professional or a beginner. Avid is industry standard when it comes to non-liner editing. Most TV and Video peoduction houses are using the avid line of products. However; Final cut is moving in and becoming more widely used. There are some pros and cons for both. I am not as versed in final cut, but I do know how the program works. I am more proficient in avid because I work on avid editors all the time. If you are a beginner, I would suggest you learn the basics with another product such as windows movie maker, vegas video, to name a couple. If you are a professional then avid, final cut, or adobe premier are the high end programs. I do suggest the adobe premier for ease of use and learning purposes, plus the cost of the programs may be a factor on which you can afford to use.
Nina Answered:
ReplyDelete"AVID and Final Cut are fundamentally the same with differences on how “user friendly” they are. They both have similar layouts with the differences being in the bins, tabs, and effect adjustments. Both have the typical preview and program viewers with customizable layouts to fit your needs. Final Cut tends to label things more clearly than AVID using plain English rather than some video jargon. Doing basic functions tends to be more user friendly in Final Cut as well (i.e. making clips “snap” together back to back and clicking and dragging clips into your timeline) But to speak on AVID’s behalf, as soon as you get used to the icons and the basic fundamentals of the program, AVID is very easy to use.
Right now I’m truthfully partial to AVID simply because I have been using it so long that I can whip through the commands easily. I have Final Cut Express on my home Mac and switching between the two can get kind of confusing at times especially with keyboard commands. If you aren’t going to be doing much more than putting video clips back to back without anything fancy I would just stick with extremely BASIC programs such as movie maker. It would be wise to look at a couple tutorials online for beginners for each program (AVID & FC). If you really want to see if you can get the hang of Final Cut, sometimes at Bestbuy they have theirs Macs set up with FC on them. Just take a few minutes to play with the display model ha-ha. See what you think. AVID is a little harder to come by. Hope this helps. I am happy to answer specifics about each program if needed."
Nina