I hate Avid.

I hate Avid.

Ok, maybe I don't HATE Avid. We're not on friendly terms I guess. Avid is friendly and useful once you get to know it. It makes sense for the most part after a few projects. But it makes me feel RETARDED - like the worst editor in the whole world. Like I'll never be able to get a job in the industry because I'm a complete moron.

Oh yea, Avid is a film and video editing software. Like Final Cut or Adobe Premiere, but it's sort of still considered the "industry standard" I guess. Some (me) argue that Final Cut is way more available and widely used and will likely surpass Avid, especially because it rocks, but whatever. A lot of people still use Avid and swear by it, and think it's the greatest thing ever.

And it's used at my internship site, the museum, so I must use it too.

I think I'm a good editor. It's really what I'd like to do with my career, post-production. When I edit with Final Cut, I'm precise, fast, and understand how to sculpt a short film or whatever. It's all intuitive because it's the interface I've used for years.

Then I go and use Avid and I feel like I've never done it before. It's not intuitive. I don't know where anything is. It's just not a very easy to understand quickly type of a program. And it makes me SO EFFING MAD.

Luckily the concepts of editing are the same no matter if you are using Avid, Final Cut, or a linear editing machine. Unfortunately it just takes me 5 times as long and 10 times as much effort to produce the same results.