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Avid Behaving Badly #9: Autosequences

Dear Avid, Thank you for taking the time to read this letter.  I know that you're very busy fucking up someone else's job, career, and possibly life, and so I truly appreciate you stepping away from whatever catastrophe of television horror you were in the process of creating to listen to my humble question. Why doesn't autosequencing work? If timecode is a thing, and sorting by timecode is a thing, then why the fuck, when I sort my clips by goddamn timecode, do you sometimes just give me an autosequence of them that is fifteen fucking days long?!?  And then, when your shitty little single-processor-using compu-brain goes and makes a fifteen day long autosequence for no fucking reason, why do you even bother to alert me that the playlength toggle needs to be turned on?  I mean, if you know it needs to be turned on, why don't you just go ahead and turn the damn thing on already?? But I digress. They say that the definition of insanity is repeating the same acti

Avid Behaving Badly #8: No Such Thing as Project Templates?

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Let's engage in some hypothetical discourse: Hypothetically, you are the creator of a suite of editing software. Hypothetically, you want this to be the  go-to editing suite for professionals. Hypothetically, you understand that once businesses design their workflow, they want to plug that workflow into every single one of their projects. Any guesses what I'm talking about, here, Avid?  None?  I'm talking about this bullshit : Seriously, how fucking hard is it to add project templates  to this behemoth of a program?  If my goddamn Cannon Printer Software can store templates, how incredibly hard would it be for you to do it?  And I'm not talking about anything complicated here.  I'm just talking about making and naming a bunch of folders so as to save me from spending fucking days fixing some asshole's half-handed attempt at organization just so that I can actually do some goddamn work. Do you know what I do?  I have a folder saved called "Templa