Saturday, June 12, 2010

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: ScriptSync & v5

"oliverpetersvidy" (6/12/10 4:37 PM) :

> it
> now appears that the entire script-based toolset is greyed out.

Not it's not. Just open a new script, and everything is there.

> So even if you
> wanted to simply sync by hand - the way it was done before the automatic
> analysis - you can't.

Yes, you can.

> As far as the price, I doubt that Avid could go as low as $299. GET is
> planning on selling their app at $500 and it uses the same Nexidia engine. So
> presumably the licensing fee is in the $100-250 range. If so, then I don't
> think Avid would do this at such a slim margin.

I'm very afraid that this is the beginning of the end of ScriptSync. Without
ScriptSync, all we have is Script-based editing, which never really took off
until ScriptSync.

> My guess is that there is a lot of new R&D cost associated with MC5, yet they
> have held the line on price. By stripping out ScriptSync, it's a way to lower
> the internal cost and not raise the price of the product.

It was pretty strongly suggested that they want to improve on the ScriptSync
features.

--
Job ter Burg
film editor - NL

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