NEVER have to do this on any Avid I've worked on (and I've worked on plenty, both PC and Mac). needs to be restarted, and/or have prefs tossed, far too often. and who in god's green earth decided that the 'Center' function shouldn't have a 'smooth' keyframe mode accesible from the keyframe window, but instead, from the Browser window, and only when you have the wireframe view mode turned on? Stupid, stupid, stupid. the keyframing interface can be balky, frustrating and downright difficult to use when you're tired and it's late in the session.those little black diamonds just don't effing go where you want them Apple is a little slow to implement support for newer compressed formats of video (anyone remember version 5, HDV and the Apple Intermediate Codec?), expecially when compared to the format-agnostic leanings of, say, Vegas. Not so bad on my little local system, but a major pain in the patoot on the Xsan-based networked systems I work on.

It loses render files like nobody's business.

I ABSOLUTELY HATE the grey-on-gray interface, with it's tiny window headers, puny type, and windows (especially the viewer window) which don't resize properly or consistently.

Many of the old keyboard shortcuts have also been replaced by one click actions meaning you don't have to remember all those 'Alt' key functions.įinale 2011 is the best version of Finale yet although beginners should be prepared for a very steep but worthwhile learning curve.While I wouldn't go so far as to say it's 'the standard by which all others are judged' (because, 8 years after I bought my first copy of FCP, I STILL compare it to Avid Media Composer.), FCP is a tremendously impressive, easy to use program that will allow any professional editor to shine, without getting in the way (for the most part).īut.you may be seeing some reservations, and you would be right. However, Finale 2011 has made things much quicker and more intuitive meaning you can get more music written in half the time. There are literally hundreds of features in Finale's rather crowded interface which make it very intimidating at first. Certainly Finale is still probably one of the most powerful cross platform tools for turning ideas into music.

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