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- aydee
Media 100 or Avid? Pros and cons, or any other programes?
Your experiences would be much appreciated before I get my company to splash some cash!
- danbroom0
for working at home i use final cut pro, which is great if your on mac or using mac laptops but otherwise i'd go with AVID everytime...its an industry broadcast standard, and tho i'd say it is no better and certainly not cheaper than media 100 products it is an investment in skills which will be useful for the future...cheers.....are you gonna buy an avid system(hardware) or are you just buying "avid express" for a pc?
- recpos0
I've no experience of Media 100... but i can offer some thoughts on Avid etc! Are you running Mac or PC? In my case working with Avid is a fairly pleasing experience (Mac G5) but it was terrible on the PC (Dell Workstation), all freelance Editors usually work and know Avid first, but it is expencive, and the support is pretty awful. If you are using Macs, then seriously consider Final Cut Pro HD, as it is very good, and integrates seamlessly with other Apple Apps, and is way ahead on Avid for value for money.
Hope that helps a bit.
recpos
- helloperson0
From experience the Media 100 people are a complete bitch to work with support wise. However, if your editors are going to be supplimenting your design team you may want to risk the support hassles and ludicrous update costs for their product.
Avid makes some wonderful stuff, and generally are pretty good to work with as well. We have had much better luck hiring quality editors now that we switched over to the avid side (as there are more of them around)... but we have found that sometimes very simple polishing effects (ie: color correction, gamma shifts, ect) have longer render times on our avid system than our previous Media 100 system. But when used as an edit box and not as a cover the designer's (me) ass box...it is great.
- helloperson0
Obviously my previous post is referring to avid and media 100's high-end editing systems.
Sorry.
- aydee0
We are looking to buy hardware that runs on a mac, primarily to increase our turnaround time and up the quality of our output as trying to do anything vaguely complex on premier takes for ever! I've had a little experience with media 100 and didn't have too many problems, but then I never really pushed it as mush as I would need to now.
- recpos0
I can fully recomend a similar set-up as ours, which is a G5 running, Avid Xpress Pro + Final Cut Pro HD, DVD Studio Pro 3, After Effects 6.5 Pro etc. If you start with a good platform (G5), you can upgrade to the high-end Avid titles over time as money allows (Adrenaline etc). Its also a pure pleasure working on projects which are to be DVD based with DVDSP3 - it rocks.
- williamb0
Hi,
I work aas an editor, and have used Media100, Avid, FCP_HD.
I belive that for value for money, best intergaration, ease of use, and less downtime, that running FCP_HD with a Kona Hardware card for SDI work is best, there is also a new box called the I/O which is very good for all your external device...
Speak to http://www/nmr.com
They are based in SoHo and have bulit many systems i have worked on over the years, they really know there stuff, and can tell you what is best for your money and workflow.
- r_gaberz0
I never quite understood what Avid is exactly. Is it just some sort of high end videocard for PC/MAC or is it a whole computer....
uh... I am feeling stupid
- aydee0
nmr, their site has just been refreshed by statedesign. V nice! I'll give em' a buzz. It should give me enough ammo to convince the guys with the cash to shell out!!
Thanks to all
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- ********0
you're on a Mac right, otherwise I would say go with Vegas Video on a PC, so simple and works great.