ADRENALINE Sucks

(From The Yahoo Avid User's Group -- By Stephen Hullfish)

What about ADRENALINE makes it more unlikely to hit a deadline than a SYMPHONY?

I suppose if you are working with DV media and you don't have an SDI out on your DV deck that would be one reason.
Or maybe if there's a ton of rendering and you've got a really old CPU on your Symphony.

But if I am up against a deadline, a Symphony is what I want.

I've seen too many problems on too many Adrenalines.

I think I've cut on about 6 to 8 different Adrenalines, both on UNITY and as stand-alones. My experience with ALL of them is crashes, losses in communication with the BOB, losses in communication with the deck, and general sluggishness on both PC and MAC versions.

Also, even though I've usually been on relatively speedy CPUs on Adrenalines and relatively slow CPUs on Symphony, Symphony has more real time stuff than an Adrenaline. I trust its performance more.

I have also been to other shops around the country and the best I've heard about Adrenaline is "ours isn't terrible."

It goes downhill from there.

MERIDIENS are the gold standard for AVID and they're not living up to it.

The biggest complaint about Meridien -- and it is a BIG complaint -- is that Avid has abandoned development on it, so it will never have the latest and greatest features.

I agree with the ability for Adrenaline to show you at least some semblance of your effect before you have to render and since Adrenaline is usually running on newer boxes, they tend to render faster. But because so much of Adrenaline is software based, Symphony has more horsepower in the hardware to begin with.

As for deadlines, if I miss FEDEX by one minute, I lose a day for my client, so a deadline is a deadline. Agencies frown on spots that make it to the stations a day late.

Of all the AVID I've been working on since 1992, this one is clearly the worst. We have taken a giant step backwards. AVID should be ashamed of themselves.