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FCP or AvidXPress?
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Join Date: May 2001
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I've been using Final Cut Pro 3 to edit my video for a while now, and I love it! However, I do keep hearing things about a new video editing program called AvidXPress and I was wondering if anyone here has ever used it.
Is it any good?
Would anyone prefer it over FCP?
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I'm not here to bash AvidXpress, but you're probably best with FCP. AvidXpres can do the same thing, but is a little more expensive. It has nice features and lots of real time effects but the real advantage is if you interact with other Avid products like MediaComposer, Symphony, Avid DS or ProTools. It handles OMF files a little better than FCP. Wich is not surprising since Avid introduced this format. Beside, since AvidXpress is based on an old architecture it doesn't deal that good with special effects. Even tough Avid's interface is a standard since many years (there's many thousands of Avid editors out there) it's really a tool geared for pure editing and it does a pretty good job to.
FCP can handle editing jobs, but it also have many copositing features that would require another software with AvidXpress.
For the price, FCP is a more complete tool.
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Yeah, I figured as much. It was advertised as being used on PCs (commercially) for a long time before they finally introduced it to the Mac interface. Thanks for the input. I'm sticking with Final Cut Pro.
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Actually, Avid was once a major suporter of the Mac platform. Their products were only availlable on Macs. Then they ported their systems to Windows NT. When Apple released the B&W G3, Avid almost droped the Mac, because those G3 had only 3 PCI slots compared to the 5 slots needed to run an Avid Media Composer. Their Mac clients got very pissed and finally Avid released their next major Hardware revision that worked the new PCI slimmed down PowerMacs. AvidXpress DV is an other story. It was supposed to be a PC version only that was put out just to compete with FCP. But the succes of FCP changed all that, because next thing we knew, Avid released an OS X version of Xpress DV out of the blue. FCP really hurted the companies that produced mid-range non-linear editing systems. I got that clue when one of a suppliers who always mocked Apple is now an authorised FCP solution provider.
All in all FCP is a great piece of software that is scalable (just add a HD card and you have an HD system for the fraction of the price.) and I don't have a problem with that.
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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Jansar:
There's an excellent analysis and comparison of the two applications you're interested in at:
http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/c...v_shootout.htm
By the way, I'm completely satisfied with FCP and its potential to do all the things -- and more -- now and far into the future. I don't ever see my requirements outgrowing the capabilities of FCP.
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