[Avid-L2] Re: Avid|DS Training Edition Installation Query/McSmoke

Will the new McSmoke be offered to everyone or just the folks who have current Smoke licenses? I hear rumblings both ways on this...but it will be $15k software only...

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Knut A. Helgeland" <knut@...> wrote:
>
> Forgetting DS for a moment, I'd do a little more research on the
> current trends concerning the going rates on Smoke. I'm just happy I'm
> not a current Smoke (or Flame) owner, since a cheaper software version
> will now crash that market pretty thoroughly. And once clients realize
> you're also running it on a Mac, they'll ask why it should be any more
> expensive than an FCP session.
>
> Not that a software version of Smoke on Mac (aka Smack™, as Stu
> Maschwitz has accurately branded it) is a bad thing, I'd love to have
> a copy and will probably consider it, but since my company depend very
> little on competing in that mid-end market of conform-based online
> work (and we already have a dreaded DS to take care of that), I'll
> probably wait until this thing is $995 and bundled with packs of sparks.
>
> K
>
> On 6. nov. 2009, at 17.48, Terence Curren wrote:
>
> > In your market maybe, in my market Smoke still commands a higher
> > rate than DS. And now at a fraction of the cost.
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Quinsee-Jover" <tony@> wrote:
> >>
> >> Way too expensive for what it can do - half that price would still
> >> be OTT.
> >>
> >>
> >> HD Heaven Limited (company no: 04620550) is registered in England
> >> and Wales
> >> at Branston Court, Branston Street, Birmingham BL8 6BA
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On
> >> Behalf Of
> >> Terence Curren
> >> Sent: 06 November 2009 15:44
> >> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> >> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Avid|DS Training Edition Installation Query
> >>
> >> You forgot to mention the price.... 15K!
> >>
> >> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "switthaus" <switthaus@> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> "In other news Avid is about to have its high-end business
> >>> attacked by
> >> Autodesk as they are imminently releasing a software only version
> >> of Smoke
> >> for the Mac with Kona3 for IO. "
> >>>
> >>> Picked this up from another Forum. I have to agree with Knut.
> >>> You can do
> >> all this now on a Mac wit the software mentioned Why should an
> >> autoscreet
> >> product (one with a very steep learning curve...worse than the DS
> >> curve that
> >> so many MC editors whined about) be any different? That said, it
> >> will be
> >> interesting to see if Autoscreet and Apple continue to work more
> >> effectively
> >> on integration via XML...what I saw at NAB a couple years ago was
> >> not very
> >> good at all going from FCP to Smoke.
> >>>
> >>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Knut A. Helgeland" <knut@> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Software Smoke is not going to have the tiniest impact on the DS
> >>>> community. It will not offer anything that you cannot already do
> >>>> with
> >>>> FCP+AE, Fusion, Nuke etc.
> >>>>
> >>>> K
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 5. nov. 2009, at 17.20, Terence Curren wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Ain't gonna sit well in the DS community....
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "switthaus" <switthaus@> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> oh really Terry? ;-)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@>
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Jesstator" <jesstator@> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> << Has anyone out there had a chance to sucessfully install
> >>>>>>> ***AND
> >>>>>>> LAUNCH*** the current version of the Avid|DS v10.2 Training
> >>>>>>> Edition software on a MacBook Pro running Boot Camp v2.1 under
> >>>>>>> MacOS 10.6.1? >>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Me thinks you may have another OSX option for advanced
> >>>>>>> compositing and finishing in a few weeks...
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
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