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Symphony Nitris?…More to come?….
Hello all, we’re looking into purchasing a Symphony Nitris for our promotions/Creative Services Dept. here and as it stands now, the “new” Symphony seems to just be an Adrenaline with a Symphony color corrector for twice the price. The only optimism I can have about it is that they decided to run it on the Nitris hardware rather than Adrenaline. I can see Avid pumping up the Symphony in the future with alot of new features that take advantage of all the horsepower in the Nitris box but I was curious if anyone has heard rumors or has other opinions on the matter. Does this new Symphony have the potential to be worth the 90K they’re asking?
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Seems to me that it’s just a DS Nitris Editor with a slightly more editor-friendly inteface. So basically it’s a new name with not much else new. (A version upgrade with lots of hype?)
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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No.
For the basic reason that you can get a real Nitris for this price.
I do belive it will become a sound HD tool for those on Unity in needs of such things but as far as buying a single unit with lotsa purposes for a set price, it’s hardly a middle ground between Adrenaline and DS Nitris.
The one I saw at NAB still boasted the ailiased DVE. I was told by the demo artist that this was because the Nitris hardware had not been installed into the demo there at NAB yet.
ok whatever. I just see ailised hooha with no native support for HDV and a 90k pricetag. Doesn’t matter what plans are made for this… at this point it’s just bogus.…and someone needs to be smacked in the freakin’ head, man.
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The original 2 comments boil down to the fact that the feature set between MCA and Symphony and DS Editor have become very similar. Heck, even Xpress Pro HD isn’t that far off. There are a few add’l features in Symphony as it stands now over the others, but whether or not that’s worth it to you cannot be answered by others. If you don’t need the extra that Symphony can offer – even in its present form – then MCA HD is far more cost effective. The main things you give up with MCA HD versus Nitris (DS or Symphony) are multi-stream HD (you have to render) and uncompressed HD. If you are in a “close to air” environment, these can be important advantages, otherwise probably not.
Sincerely,
OliverOliver Peters
Post-Production & Interactive Media
Orlando, FL
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[Oliver Peters] “If you don’t need the extra that Symphony can offer – even in its present form – then MCA HD is far more cost effective. “
Our place has had some prob’s with our MCA-HD (crashes and a lot of corrupted projects), but we’re just chalking it up to the newness of the software. Version 2.0.2 in the Media Composer’s world would be… what about 1985 or ’86?
We tolerate it and move on. Is it smooth and slick yet? No, but it gets the job done.
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[Pixel Monkey] “Version 2.0.2 in the Media Composer’s world would be… what about 1985 or ’86?
We tolerate it and move on. Is it smooth and slick yet? No, but it gets the job done.”
Well, well. Fortunately, by today, there are many non-avid alternatives out there that is stable will get the job done properly for much less. In 1986 there was not.
I agree with Grinner – somebody needs a whack on the head…
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