Avid Symphony? Not in the same league?

[Dermot Shane]

For me?

Yes, i find the color tools head & shoulders above MC/Symp… DS has nodes in the CC UI with masks/tracks/paint/plug-ins.. all while in the CC UI.. very much like Resolve, but with more tools.. plugs like Furnace Core for noise reduction, OGI smoother for digital make-up for example…

And the granularity of the tools is much more precise than MC/Symp, no jumps in values, no stepping, just fast, precice & interactive responce

DS has decent edit tools, more than enough to deal with producer notes, and has audio cutting to a sample, loads of folks cut commericals to to tail in DS.

Avid bins come in via “send to Avid|DS” from MC/Symp, it’s not as good as MC to Symp, but it is mile and miles ahead of AAF to Resolve.

So yea, we finish & grade an MOW in DS as fast as we do it Resolve, and the DP/Director’s love the flexibality of DS in dealing with things like sky replacements, fast and easy in DS, really not possiable in Resolve or Symp for example.

It’s worth a look for gradeing, even more in an Avid centric workflow, but certianly not the only option, just one more option.
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