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FCS upgrade cost -What does the COW think?
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As others have said – it’s very simple don’t upgrade and it won’t cost you a penny. FCP as it stands works fine and you can spend a year or two making money with it. Then perhaps you might budget enough for the paltry $500 it will cost you to upgrade.
Personally, as it stands, if Apple hadn’t offered any upgrade path at all, I’d STILL buy the whole suite again just to get those features and I’d make the money back in the first month!
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>>Apple should reconsider a “sliding” upgrade cost for recent purchasers.
This is not whining. This is a very justifiable complaint:
Apple’s previous behavior had given me confidence that an upgrade done within 3 months (or even longer) would not be exorbitant.dg
Thanks to Creative COW for allowing me to express my disappointment.
If this material belongs somewhere else, please advise.<< If they did implement a grace perios for discounted upgrades, then those who missed the cutoff date by a minute would be equally as miffed and claim that Aple was working on the updates way before th earliest posted date of eligibility...and it would be never ending. Maybe look at it as 'cost of upgrade' vs. 'cost of time/work lost waiting for the new version'. -
I feel bad for the newbies who think that they can get into a professional editing machine for such a low price. 10 years ago, we paid $35,000 and more for a Discreet Edit* system with real time 3D and a whopping 36Gb of SCSI storage. Now, you can buy a top level FCP with Terabytes of storage and fast processors for a lousy 10 grand or so. Ask the Avid guys what they’ve been paying for their systems all these years and then quit whining. And please, don’t tell us you’re not whining.
You probably drive a Yugo, eat at MacDonald’s and see movies at the dollar theater.
We have 5 seats of FCP, two with X-Serve raids. Get serious. This is a BUSINESS, not a hobby.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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My first NLE was a Quadra 950 and a Video Vision Studio board. Over the years I bought Avid and Media 100’s. I won’t mention how much I paid for a 32gig high speed disk-array one year (Yikes!).
Like you, I also bought an additional FCP Studio license in January. But I think $500 for this upgrade, with the new Color application, is a steal. If you have to, just purchase the upgrade after you recoup some of your investment. It’s just part of the upgrade cycle — don’t blast Apple. Reality check. The entry point for post-production has plummeted over the years.
Plus, the system you are “stuck with” rocks! Make money, learn to tell stories, create art and be inspired.
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All the best,
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If you are “stuck” w/the editing that “maybe” will serve your needs why did you even buy it? How did your needs dramatically change since Apple announced the new software? And how did you research the product for 3 months and not discover a major upgrade was most likely coming at NAB 07?
IMO the upgrade price is inexpensive and I only use my personal FCP machine for occasional, no/lo budget side projects.
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If they would have told me that the upgrade was going to be 499 I would have bought it just based on how much value Apple gives it’s customers based on previous “pay for” upgrades.
How many times do you think you’ll be using software upgrade for FREE in the coming year. A piece of what you are paying for is the constant upgrade and improvement.
This has to be one of the most riiculous threads I have read in a long time. I have to respond just because I can not believe that any informed person would think that this is a rip off.
George Loch, you have won this thread with the most accurate, succinct and hilarious posts I have read in years!
Rock on FCP!
David
Peace and Love 🙂
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$500 bucks is nothing in post-production dollars. Every year I have to budget for software upgrades. It’s just the cost of doing business. Some years I skip certain applications because I haven’t been use them as frequently.
FCP 5.1 is a fine editing system. It will do what you need to do. If you think the shiny new hammer will make your script, vision, words, ideas, and concept any better, rethink what software actually does: It’s a tool, a means to an end.
If you need extreme color grading capabilities, consider purchasing a plug-in like Synthetic Aperture’s Color Finesse. It will do a lot of what Color covers. I own it. It’s my basic color correction tool I use on FCP projects. It will cost you $575 dollars. It doesn’t integrate as well as Color, and lacks some capability, but until this upgrade, it’s how I did critical correction in Final Cut. But the upgrade price for Apple is only $500 dollars, so you might as well get the upgrade.
Now will someone call Synthetic Aperature and tell them to give my my $575 dollars back? (g)
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decloux
Since you bought your FCP 5 system for $8000 in late January my system has earnt me over$20,000 in the same time period so if you cannot afford $500 upgrade you perhaps do not need it for now.
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gee
give the man some slack, maybe he’s right and it’s a lot of money for him. There are countries where 500 bucks is a years income, so.
Anyway I will upgrade even if it will cost me 500 euro , which will equal 1500 dollars by then in july,(thats what you get when you’re dealing with weak currencies)rene hazekamp
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And if your really smart, call Apple Business sales and get it for 449 😀
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