We use Avid Express, though it would be lovely to have the better version. But I'm just grateful for this. Paul was distinctly unhappy that I wanted to go Avid, as he preferred Premier. Back when I worked in the video lab he built for me at IBM Research, he wrote our video editor, so I'm so used to strange ways of editing I'm okay with this. When we took early retirement from IBM, we brought Paul's editor with us and used it in the office setup he built for us in SVHS. At IBM he had 1" and Betacam SP put together with his own routing software that he gave a paper on for SMPTE. One of the lovely things about having someone you know writing your editor is that he could modify it for whatever special purpose use I had. I had designed a strange sort of video use for researchers to use who had no natural way of using video in their projects but wanted to go sexy with video anyway. It involved lots of logging preparation and he could modify the editor to let me log very efficiently. It was fun.
I did a white paper on non-linear editors back in the day when Avid had barely put its head up above the other non-linear editors at NAB. That got me into lots of conversations with the designers and there was clearly a huge gap between our computer orientation and the video orientation of the editing companies. Really fascinating. Got us tours around Hollywood that left me distinctly unimpressed.
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Date: 2007-06-16 03:17 am (UTC)We use Avid Express, though it would be lovely to have the better version. But I'm just grateful for this. Paul was distinctly unhappy that I wanted to go Avid, as he preferred Premier. Back when I worked in the video lab he built for me at IBM Research, he wrote our video editor, so I'm so used to strange ways of editing I'm okay with this. When we took early retirement from IBM, we brought Paul's editor with us and used it in the office setup he built for us in SVHS. At IBM he had 1" and Betacam SP put together with his own routing software that he gave a paper on for SMPTE. One of the lovely things about having someone you know writing your editor is that he could modify it for whatever special purpose use I had. I had designed a strange sort of video use for researchers to use who had no natural way of using video in their projects but wanted to go sexy with video anyway. It involved lots of logging preparation and he could modify the editor to let me log very efficiently. It was fun.
I did a white paper on non-linear editors back in the day when Avid had barely put its head up above the other non-linear editors at NAB. That got me into lots of conversations with the designers and there was clearly a huge gap between our computer orientation and the video orientation of the editing companies. Really fascinating. Got us tours around Hollywood that left me distinctly unimpressed.
Now we just putter.
Best, Mary