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FCP X vs MC pricing
Food for thought… For the first time, it costs more to build up a package of tools for FCP X that would equal what you have in the standard Avid Media Composer bundle
FCP X $300
Motion 5 $50
Compressor 4 $50
Xto7 $50
7toX $10
Event Manager X $5
X2Pro Audio Convert $150
Change List X $200
Sync N Link X $200
EDL X $100
Hawaiki Color $50
Nattress Curves $50Total $1215
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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In that list are a bunch of tools that aren’t bundled with Avid MC.
Motion 5 – Boris can do some things, but not all that Motion can.
Sync N Link – Nothing like this in Avid.
Hawaiki Color/Nattress Curves – Might find something comparable in Symphony, which is a $700 add on.
Shane
Little Frog Post
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You missed the point. These are equivalent, not identical products.
For the record, the MC bundle includes AvidFX (same as Boris RED), Sorenson Squeeze, Avid DVD (PC only), EDL Manager, Film Scribe, ALE and Media Log. All for about $1K these days.
[Shane Ross] “Motion 5 – Boris can do some things, but not all that Motion can.”
Though not identical, AvidFX is a companion compositor, just like Motion. FWIW – AvidFX also adds a healthy set of BCC and FEC filters, but there are very nice filters in X and Motion. So I consider that more or less equal.
[Shane Ross] “Sync N Link – Nothing like this in Avid.”
Sure there is. It’s built into MC. AutoSynch. Just to be clear, Sync-N-Link X does not do post synching.
[Shane Ross] “Hawaiki Color/Nattress Curves – Might find something comparable in Symphony, which is a $700 add on.”
Nope. I’m talking about standard color correction with color wheels and curves tools. These plug-ins give you that. Doesn’t require Symphony as these tools are in MC.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Oliver Peters] “[Shane Ross] “Hawaiki Color/Nattress Curves – Might find something comparable in Symphony, which is a $700 add on.”
Nope. I’m talking about standard color correction with color wheels and curves tools. These plug-ins give you that. Doesn’t require Symphony as these tools are in MC.
“Right about the plugins, though FCPX has some secondary color correction built in, Avid doesn’t. Avid hamstrings the color corrector in MC so they can sell you the Symphony option. Which is a $1400 add on unless they reduced it to $700 and I missed it.
I’m an Avid editor and enthusiast, but longtime FCP user as well…however I am not a big fan of FCPX. Just got to be truthful and say your comparison is not all that accurate. Also, have to agree with Shane…Motion is not really like Boris RED aka AvidFX at all.
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With FCPX I get the option of deciding if I need these extra tools or not. For most of the work I do for TV or internet I wouldn’t even need half the stuff on that list.
“Always look on the bright side of life” – Monty Python
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Also, if you use FCPX, motion, compressor and DaVinci, you don’t need the extra stuff…
If you never use EDL, 7 to x or x to 7, the only thing you really need is xtoPro, to get the audio out…
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FCPX, Motion, compressor, DaVinci and X2Pro, is still far less, for us that has left to “OLD” way of working.
🙂
Helge
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Oliver,
I don’t think you need Xto7 if you have X2Pro and EDLX
Change List X?
Hawaiki + Natress Color? (Not to mention the option to have DaVinci for free, just supposing FCPX color correction is not enough).Leo Hans
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Just to add an edit. The price would actually be $1315, since one would have to add SliceX w-Mocha, as well.
None of this is a judgement, however. Merely that we’ve passed some sort of milestone.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Leo Hans] “I don’t think you need Xto7 if you have X2Pro and EDLX”
You do for project interchange with old FCP projects.
[Leo Hans] “Hawaiki + Natress Color?”
Answered in my reply to Shane.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Why would you need to add Slice X? Does Avid offer something similar in their package, automatic tracking? As far as I know they don’t…
What if you don’t like avid fx? For me one of the reasons i never invested in Avid was the fact that you spend more money and get features you might never use.
“Always look on the bright side of life” – Monty Python
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Avid does have tracking in app. It’s decent but it ain’t Mocha.
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