Andrew Kolakowski wrote:Yes, but why they would not have MOV ProRes export? People export masters for deliveries not just to pass to other AVID. OpAtom is not delivery friendly and no one uses it. It all smells politically driven decisions- Apple will do native DNxHD/R handling and AVID will use ProRes and MOV
AMA is just a massive patch on old AVID core (actual whole AVID is outdated technology).
You can export ProRes from Avid in OSX. In the Windows side, it was never implemented I assume because of cost. Even the first implementation of Windows ProRes export, Telestream server, was incredibly expensive.
Yes OpAtom is not practical transferring and delivering master files, but it was not supposed to be. Avid uses it because it makes sense in a collaborative environment. Moving audio and video files everytime to other parts of the collaborative chain is extremely inefficient if they just need audio OR video. VFX may not want all 120 tracks of audio. Sound mix unlikely wants that 4444 video file.
Avid being outdated? Hardly! Adobe is copying their project sharing method (bin locking) in the UPCOMING release of Premiere. DR seems to be adding a lot of the OLDER features of NLE
Bin locking is still a better implementation than BM PostgreSQL method. MC's multicam is better than most. Even the concept of a bin file is better than DR's DRP. Its Interplay Media Indexer is far better than any NLE or DR for large collaborative environment. The PMR/MDB indexer is also something I wish Adobe, Apple and BM copy.
Yes, it is not sexy like FCPX or DR, but Avid MC is still the best tool in a collaborative editing environment.