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I don’t think it would have been so bad if it weren’t for this line…
“I am now stuck with this editing system, and maybe it will serve my needs; but UNLESS I can get this upgrade for a lot less, APPLE will never get my recommendation as being a good company — and in the future I WILL avoid Apple products.”
Bit extreme, no? 😉
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The only question I have is how much time/money would you have lost waiting the month to get full FCS2 package, compared to the $499 upgrade? Could you have afforded to wait until may to get started? If so, then I do sympathise with your situation…money is money. But if you had to get started now, then this was the only way to do it, it’s how it’s always been, and by no means will your version be obsolete any time soon…which IS a generous effort on Apple’s part. Yes, $499 is $499, but if you compare that to the capabilities you are getting with that, it really is like pennies on the dollar for the next version compared to what AVID offers (or can’t offer)….an insanely low price per performance ratio, and major updates for long-existing apps have always cost money, even for people who bought the old version a week before the release of the next. They are not gipping you, but I do think it’s unfair to think that they should’ve extended an extra courtesy for your case and others like it, when they are already bending over backwards to make it all so accessible to begin with. You got unlucky with timing, happens to all of us…but the sting really isn’t that bad compared to if you were to seek these capabilities elsewhere, even if you were right on time.
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OOPS…sorry, just read through the thread below, Looks good!!
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Hi Luke. Happy owner of the original Intensity, and I’m looking into getting the Decklink HD Extreme. Will you be adding ProRes support to it? Thanks.
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>>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.<< And they're not spending everything they have on an editing system, only to be caught off guard when upgrades come out. I do sympathize in that no-one wants to just htrow away even a penny. But it's wrong to blame Apple when they are proceeding in a way that has worked fine for the vast majority of people who know and use the system, amny of whom don't have displosable income. They offer their software for an amazing price, but it's up to the user, like with many other things, to do their research and stay on top of coming changes and the state of development of what they are making their living with....and come up with the right plan that suits them best. If anything, maybe Apple makes all this stuff too accessible, and it misleads less-experienced folks into thinking that they can be up and running at the same pace and level as people who have been doing this for many years...because they bought the same tools. We all know there's a lot more to it than that. So you can go out and get the latest-greatest shoes and sports equipment, but you can't blame the league if you don't know the rules of the game. I just think it's wrong to point the finger at Apple about this, when most others who've spent as much and still have to spend just as much aren't...and it's not because they're loaded.
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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'. -
Just wondering if there was news that day, that’s all. Yeah, I might give Black Magic a call. We’re not getting FCP 6 for a month, anyway… but I’m smack in the middle of making a choice between a few setups, and the decision is time-sensitive.
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Will there be support for loading via a BlackMagic Decklink HD?
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Funny…I worked in both Avid and Accom’s Sphere before going to FCP when v. 2 came out, and found FCP to be sort of an amalgm of the two interfaces. But I absolutely prefer FCP’s ergonomics, which I find just more intuitive and streamlined for pure editing, but still prefer some of Avid’s featursets for film work. Some of Les’s suggestions would be nice, but at this point, I just don’t miss them when in FCP. Some things take a bit more time or steps, but once you’re used to them, it doesn’t matter.
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…sorry for the typo.