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Death of the Little Weight Lifter Guy (And Other Media Composer Interface Changes)

Only published comments... May 15 2008, 07:46 AM by ejose
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When Media Composer 3.0 ships next month, you'll notice a few changes to the interface.  They're minor changes, designed to make it easier for new Avid editors to quickly identify the intended purpose of particular icons.  For veteran Avid editors, there's one change in particular that will be met with a bit of sadness: the death of the iconic "lift" icon.  The weight lifter icon is going away.

Greg Staten has written a great post on the Media Composer 3.0 interface changes.  The last line to his post is the best: "My apologies to those of you out there who will miss the little guy. He's on his way to the place where the purple triangle lives."  (For new Avid customers... the purple triangle refers to the old Avid logo that joined the iconic graveyard in the late 90's.)

 

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Events Rewind said:

First a tour of the WUSA station was given to attendees by one of the news directors. He showed the newsroom

May 20, 2008 1:49 PM
 

Sycophant said:

Well that's it! I'm going to FCP! At least they still have the little weightlifter... Oh no. Wait.

I think Avid should make it an option somewhere to re-enable the weightlifter. Even if it adds a month to the release date, it'd totally be worth it.

June 5, 2008 1:28 AM

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