If we need to hire 20 more people tomorrow and they each need a Media Composer | Ultimate system, we just spin up those 20 systems in about 4 minutes. In the past, that would have been a three to four-week process based on lead time from vendors.
HUGUES DALTON, DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION ENGINEERING
I wish more smaller projects would use Avid, because it’s so fast—you can do stuff with one button that would take multiple mouse clicks with anything else.
DANNY RAMIREZ, VADER DIRECTOR, WRITER, EDITOR
Film students will be working and editing their projects in Avid Media Composer and Symphony. We’ll have audio students working in Pro Tools, editing and mixing the sounds: dialog, sound effects and music. And, we’ll bring it all together in the dub stage.
SCOTT DANSBY, DIRECTOR OF INDUSTRY RELATIONS
Ede is far, far better than me at this job, she has an affinity for the art, as a filmmaker, and as a serious filmmaker. The short films she has already made to date are incredible and I can’t wait to see the new one she does. She really is a natural.
PAUL CROWDER, ACE, EDITOR, DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS, RIDING GIANTS, SOUND CITY
The Avid NEXIS SSD is a game changer for us. It really opens up possibilities for us because it takes a fraction of the time to render with its network speed and data rate.
TODD ULMAN, FOUNDER, CHAIRMAN, CEO, AND CREATIVE FORCE BEHIND MAD OLD NUT PRODUCTIONS
Shane Black’s sensibility is very rapid-fire. He feels the rhythm of the story, and can’t abide it feeling slow, so the cutting is like that, with hardly any setup in the action scenes. It makes an enjoyable ride.
HARRY B. MILLER III, ACE, EDITOR, THE PREDATOR