Advantage Avid over FCP for Red Workflow with Metadata

[gbalaji]

With Red Rushes or QT Proxies you can have only either Edgecode or Time of the Day based on what you selected in Camera for a quicktime movie which can be used for FCP edit, whereas for Avid you can export ALE from Red Rushes which has both Time of the Day and EdgeCode when batch imported using QT Proxies.

Which is better FCP or Avid. You be judge?

 

[Pierre Haberer]

Depends on your project I guess... Personnaly, I wouldn't do a long form using FCP. Not crazy about the tools, and the Trim mode is plain crap.
We've just done a "real-life" test -a short film- for a feature film, using Avid and cutting with their offline DNXHD36 codec - only takes 1.5 more space than DV and looks great, low bandwidth almost allow you to playback from a floppy disk ;-)
But for a commercial or a short film finishing on HDCAM or Digi, I'm happy to go FCP/Prores.

 

[Leo Ticheli]

... and the Trim mode is plain crap.

I disagree.

Best regards,

Leo

 

[Lucas Wilson]

Which is better FCP or Avid. You be judge?

This is a religious discussion, and has been argued a bo-zillion times on a bo-zillion forums. : )

Different editors have different preferences for different reasons. If you really want to read all about it, search the Avid-L2 or the FCP Forum at the Cow for Avid vs. FCP.

Lucas
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ASSIMILATE, inc.
LA, CA, USA

 

[gbalaji]

This is a religious discussion, and has been argued a bo-zillion times on a bo-zillion forums. : )

Different editors have different preferences for different reasons. If you really want to read all about it, search the Avid-L2 or the FCP Forum at the Cow for Avid vs. FCP.

Lucas
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ASSIMILATE, inc.
LA, CA, USA

Luki,

This not just based on passion with Avid or XYZ. This is based on number of projects I worked and working parallel with both FCP and Avid. ALE import for Avid gives more metadata info whereas FCP only have an option to choose between Edgecode or Time of the Day information.

 

[timdavid]

What if an editor does not need both time of day and Edgecode in FCP?

 

[MichaelP]

If you don't need both timecodes then it is not an issue and you are fine. The real issue is never knowing what you are going to need until you need it - that's why I am a fine of the "more metadata" the better and have always designed software to follow that rule as much as possible.

Michael