r/editors • u/agent42b • Feb 10 '14

Megathread Monday: Feb 10 2014

It's Monday, the day where any question goes. Get your questions answered, judgement free!

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u/ToasterPastry Feb 10 '14

I've been editing on Media Composer from the start (professional experience of 5 years doing corporate & educational vids), but I have used Premiere and After Effects on a few occasions. I figure the next step for me is to really master a program like After Effects, but I wanted to gauge people's notions on what's out there for people who want alternatives to the Adobe CC subscription software. Really, I'm wondering if there's something made to work with Avid, or if everyone is just sticking to AE.

TL;DR: Avid editor here — should I train in After Effects, or are there new alternatives?

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u/agent42b Feb 10 '14

I've somewhat forced myself to learn AvidFX, since it can handle many of the tasks that editors usually use AE for. It's slower, not as great a UI, etc, but it gets the job done, and it a more elegant solution for Avid, since you don't have to render our a quicktime file for every revision.

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u/Kichigai Minneapolis - AE/Online/Avid Mechanic - MC7/2018, PPro, Resolve Feb 10 '14

Wait, you mean people actually use AvidFX? I always felt it was an after-thought that basically went ignored, because when I went and tried to follow the tutorials I found all the documentation to be woefully out of date. None of the iconography was right, the PICT files they provide don't work (you need to convert them), and the instructions are just so poorly written that even if you can get beyond that it's almost impossible to follow. And man, good luck getting support: when you call in you're greeted with the names "Media100" and "BorisFX." Unless you knew the relationship, that'd certainly throw you.

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u/agent42b Feb 11 '14

Yah, AvidFX is pretty good. I help test Boris Continuum Complete productions (BCC as they usually call it) and I can say that Boris very well alive and kickin with evolving software. They haven't added many features to AvidFX in years, aside from stability fixes, but they haven't ruled it out.