Bummed on FCPX, too bad Avid MC5 is back to full price

[Floris Kotze]

Nice one! Just wanna see if Ill get my refund! Then hello my old friend Avid!

[Gary Bettan]

BTW – Did I mention that we still have both Avid Media Composer 5.5 and Adobe CS5.5 Production Premium crossgrades in stock 😉

Plus our new SUPER bundle that combines both offers for $1,674 and saves you an additional $120!!

https://www.videoguys.com/Specials/Now+In+Stock.aspx

Gary

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[Ben G unguren]

Keep in mind that there’s a 30-day fully-functioning trial of MC available for anyone who wants to give it a run….

[Matt Devino]

Awesome news.

[Dane Henry]

Thankyou, just purchased! Pretty much get Avid for free!

-Dane

-Dane Henry
DeepRootsMedia.com

[Karim Daire]

Hi Matt,

I live in Germany… is your offer available over here too or does Adobe sell the Crossgrades over here? I can’t find any similar european offers for adobe on their site or their licensed partners. Just crossgraded to Avid but no Production premium Crossgrade to find?!

Greetings,

Karim

-Karim-
Freelance Cutter, Compositor and Animator from Hamburg/Germany

[Tom Daigon]

Probably a REAL good idea to try it before you buy it.

Avid is widespread and says “Professional” to lots of folks, but I know many of FCP folks made the jump and were quite unhappy. Its GUI not as sophisticated and flexible as FCP 7 was. Its only 32 bit.Its a very proprietary system no easily accessible to third party solutions.

I know it has the rep as Hollywoods baby, but after 5 years of Media Composer and 12 of Avid DS, it will be a cold day in hell before I ever went back. Each to their own.

Tom Daigon
Avid DS / FCP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com

[Michael Hancock]

[Tom Daigon] “Its GUI not as sophisticated and flexible as FCP 7 was. Its only 32 bit.Its a very proprietary system no easily accessible to third party solutions. “

What’s the last version of Media Composer you used? MC 5.5 has changed a lot in the way you can edit. It’s much friendly to FCP editors.

If anybody decides to go with Avid, definitely download the trial and watch the tutorials on the Avid site. They’ll get you started and explain the Avid way of doing things. Also, check your system specs against the Avid requirements – if you don’t meet them or you’re running to new of an OS or Quicktime and run into problems, it’s not necessarily the software’s fault. It could be your system (Avid is very specific about OS and Quicktime versions).

Michael

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Michael Hancock
Editor