Hello,
I work in a TV station and we have a large AVID production system in our plant. Here we Media Composer users collaborating with MediaCentral users. It's a great system. We had it since version 2.2 and we are now in version 2.7.2. It's quite impressive how the system has evolved in such a short time span.
Now for the suggestions. Here are a couple of suggestions:
1 - We work with disks that contain multiple clips. A single disk can sometimes have a range from 50 to 100 clips. One of the workflows involves a MediaCentral user selecting clips (and parts of them) and arranging them in a timeline. The user has to open every single clip in the Media pane and then drag it to the sequence pane. It's useful when the user wants to select specific parts of a clip. But it can be extremely time-consuming for when the user wants to select a lot of clips, without making any IN or OUT selections on them. The suggestion: The user can select multiple clips in the asset pane and drag that selection directly into the sequence pane (as long as a sequence is open). Or maybe right click on the selected clips and select an "Add to a sequence" option.
2 - We also have an extensive use of the logging function. The logging has some pretty solid export options. But we would like to have an additional one: export to iNews. We have users that use the standalone iNews client and it would be great if those users could see the text of the logged clip in iNews. Right now we do a copy and paste operation, but that's far from ideal. Suggestion: And export to iNews option in the export options of the Logging panel. The user would then select the folder and the story to past it too. A real time export (the story would get updated as the user logs the clip) would be even better.
Keep up the good work guys. Thank you.