Avid evangelism

I suppose evangelism is by definition avid. Avid have started a series of online tutorials the explain their interface to Final Cut Pro users. They’ve only just begun with the introduction and lesson 1, which is how to start an Avid project and how the file organisation on disk differs from Final Cut.
They also don’t [...]

In fair Verona

Avid for FCP Users: Autosave compared with the Avid Attic
The equivalent of Final Cut Pro’s Autosave feature is the ‘Avid Attic.’ In Final Cut, the whole project is saved every few minutes. You choose where these backups are stored using ‘System Settings’ in the ‘Final Cut Pro’ menu:

With Avid the backups go to a specific [...]

Two households, both alike in dignity

Avid for FCP users: How to make a clip offline
Sometimes Final Cut Pro editors like to make clips offline, usually so that they can be recaptured at a higher resolution. In Avid terms this is is known as ‘unlinking’ the clip. There is no ‘Unlink’ in the Bin menu, but there is a way to [...]

Which ever you think is best… I’ll agree with you

That’s the thing about being a professional editor. You need to make it seem that whichever system people provide, that’s the one you are most happy to use.
So I’ve started writing a guide to Avid for Final Cut users. If any of it doesn’t make any sense, please comment!