Comments on: More on Apple and Avid http://watchingapple.com/2008/06/more-on-apple-and-avid/ Thoughts about Apple and design Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:32:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: S Xavier http://watchingapple.com/2008/06/more-on-apple-and-avid/comment-page-1/#comment-7791 S Xavier Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:42:29 +0000 http://watchingapple.com/?p=389#comment-7791 If you read slightly farther in the article, you will see that the kernel panic was due to the reviewer's failure to do the upgrade correctly. "My issue stemmed from immediately installing 2.8 on Leopard when I first bought it. Why you ask? Because, I didn’t read the “read me” file. (Ugh!) Confirmation once again that it pays to RTFM (read the fabulous manual). After walking me through uninstalling and then deleting some remnants of the previous version, I re-installed, rebooted, and voila, problem solved. ...The fact that it runs flawlessly on Apple’s latest operating system and hardware is the ice cream on top of the pie. From my first week of working with it, Media Composer 3.0 is a winner." FCP certainly is cheaper overall considering what comes with the package, but as a long time Avid editor and current user of FCP, I can say that both have their strengths and weaknesses. They are both excellent tools. I prefer Avid, but my clients have both, so I must also. If you read slightly farther in the article, you will see that the kernel panic was due to the reviewer’s failure to do the upgrade correctly.

“My issue stemmed from immediately installing 2.8 on Leopard when I first bought it. Why you ask? Because, I didn’t read the “read me” file. (Ugh!) Confirmation once again that it pays to RTFM (read the fabulous manual). After walking me through uninstalling and then deleting some remnants of the previous version, I re-installed, rebooted, and voila, problem solved.
…The fact that it runs flawlessly on Apple’s latest operating system and hardware is the ice cream on top of the pie. From my first week of working with it, Media Composer 3.0 is a winner.”

FCP certainly is cheaper overall considering what comes with the package, but as a long time Avid editor and current user of FCP, I can say that both have their strengths and weaknesses. They are both excellent tools. I prefer Avid, but my clients have both, so I must also.

]]> By: A Priori http://watchingapple.com/2008/06/more-on-apple-and-avid/comment-page-1/#comment-7107 A Priori Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:02:00 +0000 http://watchingapple.com/?p=389#comment-7107 Question: Didn't Avid allow Microsoft to infuse it with bribe money to convince Avid to either slow or kill off development for the Mac version? And then Apple took that challenge to video editing and bought/developed its own, FinalCut? If true, then belieguered Avid is simply experiencing two expected things: It found out what going to bed with MS hurts, and a sort of poetic justice. Question: Didn’t Avid allow Microsoft to infuse it with bribe money to convince Avid to either slow or kill off development for the Mac version? And then Apple took that challenge to video editing and bought/developed its own, FinalCut? If true, then belieguered Avid is simply experiencing two expected things: It found out what going to bed with MS hurts, and a sort of poetic justice.

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