Doug Price
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Brad, if you haven’t seen the new Avid interface i think you will be suprised. https://www.avid.com/US/special-offers/product-trials you can download the full version of MC at that link for 30 days without water marks to try it yourself. It is actually too FCP friendly on the UI for many of us classic Avid editors, so you may find it to be much more useful than you think.
What harm can be done by downloading a trial version and playing with it. They didn’t water mark it so you can always cut a show on it for free.
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Eric, Avid opened up the IO boxes to AJA and Matrox already. the AJA box is less than $1000 and does full HD IO. The Matrox is limited to just monitoring, but still better than paying the full price of Avid hardware. Avid systems also come with Sonic DVD which does Blu-Ray authoring already. I don’t like it as well as DVD Studio pro, but it works very well with Sorenson directly in the Avid.
Avid has already lowered the price to attract rotten Apple fans, so that is a direction that should be looked at. Avid is way ahead of the others in the marketing to FCP users and despite what Chris said earlier, they have Listened to all of their customers low-end professionals to the high-end professionals and their tools bare that out. I agree their pricing is slightly higher, but so is a BMW or Cadillac, you pay for expertise and experience. Avid also has a live body to talk to when you do have a problem, not some ‘genius’ who doesn’t know rotoscoping from rototilling.
Avid is focused on the professionals all the way down to the beginners in school. Did you know a student copy is $295 with free support for 4 years. Let’s see Adobe top that! My money is on the guys who have been there from day one….Avid.
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Avid is offering FCP users the ability to change to their solution for $995 through the end of June. Class on Demand offers a DVD for Media Composer for Final Cut Editors $99.
The Avid software comes with all the 3rd Party solutions as well: Boris Continuum, Avid FX, Sorenson 6 and others.
Seems like the most economical choice is Avid, plus they have really been putting out the releases lately, two a year compared to Appe’s one every 2.5 years and then this child’s toy.
Avid by far is the best choice.