"A Cautionary Tale for the FCP Switcher"

My latest article is up on the Creative Cow that outlines all the issues we ran into with our latest attempt to introduce Avid 6 to the workflow of a current series. Didn't go as planned, but on the upside, we're still in communication with Avid and hoping to work with them on back-end issues.

http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/a-cautionary-tale-for-the-fcp-switcher

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
biscardicreative.com

Hi Walter, thanks for sharing. There are caveats in working in AMA since the first version of Avid, which is why I always saw it as the FCP equivalent of log and transfer- AMA and then consolidate/transcode to offline or online media depending on your workflow. Then at the end of it, export an AAF file. AMA just gives a bit more flexibility than L&T, but getting it into MXF is something most Avid editors swear by for a good reason. But there are other caveats that I've heard about such as the tape name issue that you mentioned.



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