[Scott Carnegie]

Thanks Tim, I have a clearer idea of what you are stating now.

I actually have brought this up to Avid before, since I rarely hear their name mentioned on podcasts like the DV show and Digital Production Buzz and it sounded like they might look at a sponsorship of some kind. perhaps I will bring it up again. As I mentioned in another post in this thread, I think that marketing is where Avid falls short.

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[Scott Carnegie]

“The bottom line is every gig we bid on is a test of our marketing and talent.”

Yep.

It’s tempting to make the jump to a “real” office. It depends on how busy you are, what the client demand is and how many people are working with/for ya.

There have been a few times where we were on the brink of a big contract and looked at getting office space with a small studio to accomodate the shooting we’d be doing. It didn’t happen and I still work out of home.

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[Scott Carnegie]

“Thank you for stating your bias honestly, Scott. ”

Thought that would be fair 🙂

It seems that much of what we are talking about is marketing, and Apple has done a top notch job of marketing not just FCP but the Apple brand in the last few years. I see more “common people” with Macs than ever beforem whereas it used to just be editors and graphics artists that would have a Mac.

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[Scott Carnegie]

” An admission that thier products are worth half of what they tried to first reem their client base for is hardly a step in the right direction. ”

I see it as a response to the market demand, that’s what a smart business would do. Keeping a price too high to prove a point would be very bad business.

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[Scott Carnegie]

All good points Ron. I think that we as consumers of editing packages are better off the more competition there is between manufacturers and the healthier each individual company is. I certinaly don’t hope for any of these companies to go under, but it is likely to happen one day.

In the end, companies need to respond to customer demand, espeically in a hard market with so many options like NLE. If they don’t respond to demand, they lose.

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[Scott Carnegie]

“we specifically asked for help, and were told twice that Avid had no interest in spending energy on outside forums”

Sorry, I should have clarified that I wasn’t saying it didn’t happen, only that I think it isn’t a reason to criticize them.

I don’t think it is a fair criticism to make of a company that they want to spend their resources on their own product rather than someone elses.

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[Scott Carnegie]

Did the orignal contract specifically call for the project file to be handed over? If not then I don’t think they have claim to it. There was a thread about this recently on this forum.

As you probably know now, keep everything…

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[Scott Carnegie]

“I sure wouldn’t bet any of my money on Avid at this point. ”

I’ve honestly been hearing people say that for years; when they moved from Meridean systems, when they discontinued Xpress Pro, etc. The fact is that all of these businesses are likely to go out of business once day, it’s amatter of when.

Here is the latest financial report, I don’t know this kind of stuff so I’m not sure how to interpret it, although I don’t know how long a company can operate at a loss.

https://ir.avid.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=424568

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[Scott Carnegie]

You might be able to tie into the building existsing audio system, and put up a few room mics for ammbience.

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[Scott Carnegie]

According to the article “The company employs approximately 2,200 people worldwide.”

“We’ve not seen effort by that company in close to a decade now. ”
Cutting Media Composer pricing by 50% isn’t an effort? C’mon.

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