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Avid:  Editor or Database?

I’ll admit it, as I have before:  I’m not an Avid guy.  Of course, that doesn’t stop my employer from being an Avid house.  We are currently installing an Interplay system, which centralizes all our assets, and allows many different people throughout the plant to preview the video, audio, graphics and such.  As a part of the installation process, all of us who have to edit must get an Interplay tutorial.  I sat through mine this morning, and for four hours I was reminded of a statement I have heard again and again:

“Final Cut and Premiere Pro are great editors with crappy databases.  Avid is a crappy editor in front of a GREAT database.”

Interplay drives that message home - with a sledgehammer.

There are at least three (and maybe more - I’m not sure) ways to tiptoe through the Interplay database.  The one that looks the most useful to me is the Interplay window that lives inside the Media Composer editor.  This window seems to hold the promise of wiping away all of the various bins (except the bin with the sequence in it.)  Big step forward, IMHO.  Next is Assist, which is a standalone app that can offer logging on a desktop, which of course requires database access.  And speaking of access, then there is Access (wasn’t Microsoft using that name just a minute ago?), which is the heavy-duty search monster, with Boolean searches that can drill through your pile of video like an Exxon oil rig through the Gulf of Mexico.  Not to mention the several administrator tools, which I will never hold permissions for (and rightfully so.)

And I wonder…three (or more) applications?  Wouldn’t one be enough?

I suppose that an argument can be made for each, but really - how complicated do we have to make our systems?

Of course, I probably wouldn’t mind half as much if I could just graft the Premiere Pro interface onto it.  Is that too much to ask?

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It makes sense to me to have the Interplay window within the editing application. As for merging Assist and Access, it’s something that everyone who uses Interplay requests but I have been given to understand that it’s not so easy to implement.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  06/18  at  11:56 PM

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Interplay is a great idea but on a practical level it’s not quite there.
I’ve worked with several Interplay setups. The features are really cool but they come with a price. Besides the fact that editors now have yet another tool to manage, Interplay slowwwwwwws down the system so much until it’s almost impossible to do basic operations. And on top of all - no match frame across interplay media!

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  06/19  at  01:40 PM

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You should have them try Sony Vegas. Great editor with a great database.

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