why can't we be friends?

final cut is my arch nemisis. i fucking hate it. no really, i do. if you got excessive myspace comments or ims from me today it's bc i spent FOREVER trying to do the same 30min layoff 5 different times. that's 2 and a half hrs of reading wonkette (and you know, excessive commenting and iming) and waiting for my damn tape to finish, only to have it finish w/o any actual video the first 4 times, because final cut sucks. and is a stupid software based program (ok fine my avid at home is software based but at least it's just a downgraded version of an editing system that isn't stupid) that has to use some stupid plug in video card, that also sucks. avid is all cool and has a pci box with cool video cards that don't need 10thousand different project settings to make them work right the first time. avid is also way way easier to troubleshoot. noah and i still aren't too sure how we fixed it, we just know that we did...for now...

i thought final cut and i had finally found a middle ground. i mean, it's been nearly 3months, we were bound to find at least a few things that worked well between us. and i thought we had. it can do some cool motion effects (even if it's whole keyframing system is kind of a pain in the ass), but you can nest effects (but then you can do that in most versions of avid too, and all of the newer versions for sure), and, um, the timecode reader effect is kinda cool i guess...ok avid is way better, but i programed final cut with my avid keyboard shortcuts and was on my way to a content compromise, until it decided to basically just be a huge, broken, pain in the ass today. for no reason at all.

i hate this fucking program.