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It’s available everywhere. It is not a separate product in the store, though. First one needs to submit this form: https://www.avid.com/us/promo. Then you will receive a discount code. You go to the Avid store, purchase the full version (shippable box, the download does NOT contain the production suite), then at checkout, you can fill in the code you received. This will reduce the price of the full package to more or less the equivalent of 999 USD. It may look like it’s a little more, as the prices in the European store include VAT. But if you supply them with your EU VAT number, you can get that back.

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So… you left Avid because you never figured out how it works?

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No reason to go through Log & Transfer. All of those formats are natively supported in Avid. Faster, and better than in FCP (no gamma shifts).

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Beware there’s a limit to the amount of titles that can live in a single bin, I think 99. At least, that used to be the case.

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You can’t accidentally remove a project format. What are you looking for, and where?

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There’s no telling. Upgrade pricing has varied from 149 to 699 over the last three years, IIRC.

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No need to manually type in the activation number everytime. The machine can remember it. It’s basically a virtual dongle. If anything happens, Avid has 24h free phone support for activation issues.

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Thousands of people are running MC on a variety of systems without any issues. Installs are generally very easy.

State your system specs, and check it with the Avid Version Matrix. https://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=267087

Like Michael, even not-so-new machines will run MC just fine.

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The topic made me assume you wanted to stay native. Hence same as source. If not, transcode to a middle-high flavor of DNxHD, then use same as source to export.

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Why not try Same-As-Source? Quickest export, no quality loss.