[Avid-L2] Re: Mac Smoke Official

Thats true, Mark, but if I own a facility and want to add a McSmoke, I would create a new suite specifically for that system. First for performance, then usage and finally image (and to our clients, so much relies on image! Especially my ad clients). I think a lot of folk are thinking "well, I'll just add it to my current FCS suite and away we go".

That certainly is one way to go, but the last thing I would want to do is block out high-rate smoke hours because a much lower rate FCP gig is in the suite. Sure, spend the $999 to have FCS on your McSmoke rig for project prep, testing, trouble shoot, etc, but I want to sell those high dollar hours if I am making that investment.

Competition is good. I would love to have a DS-soft running on my Mac system for finish prep...one can dream, eh?

sw

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Mark" <markraudonis@...> wrote:
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> But... many people already have everything on that list... except the software.
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> Which brings us back to the low, low price of 30K + 2K maintenance.
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> Competition is good. I look forward to seeing what kind of response this will generate from all the usual suspects.
>
> Mark
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "switthaus" <switthaus@> wrote:
> >
> > Great worksheet. I think this just highlights the fact that setting up a true finishing suite, whether its FCP or McSmoke or an Avid product is far more than just the software. Lower cost, but not low cost.
> >
> > sw
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "oliverpetersvidy" <oliverpeters@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Scott,
> > >
> > > > switthaus wrote:
> > > > Here is Scott Malkie's updated estimate on a start-up turnkey McSmoke suite.
> > >
> > > He's saying basically what I said. The only items in here that are over and above a "high-end" FCP suite are the Smoke software, Autodesk maintenance contract and the Quadro graphics card. Plus he's loaded it with a lot of other niceties that aren't required for the system to operate, such as the Dreamcolor monitors. Here's a similar FCP configuration I've done (download the spreadsheet).
> > >
> > > http://tinyurl.com/kkzggl
> > >
> > > - Oliver
> > >
> >
>

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