Hi Shirley,
Owners and users, everyone with an opinion about Symphony is strongly invited to join the discussion. In no way did I mean to exclude anyone, let alone people with actual hands-on experience, like yourself. So thanks for weighing in.
Me, I'm an decadent a-hole, as 99.9% off what I do on my Symphony is offline. It's my own machine, I needed to get away from Meridien some years ago, wanted to be able to move to HD (even HD offline), I didn't like Adrenaline, I wanted 8ch audio I/O (as I had had for years on MC) that the Nitris box featured, and I was able to cough up the dough. I do use source based correction in my offlines, a lot. It's great for any editing, even matching takes in offline is much nicer, faster and cleaner (no timeline clutter) that way. I don't even see source-based CC as solely a finishing feature.
My main point for starting the topic on the forums is that, for some years now, Symphony development has stalled. This color correction feature, along with Universal Online, is about the only thing that separates MC and Symphony. But what development has taken place on Symphony since, say, v3? Nothing that was not a feature of Media Composer too, AFAIK. At the same time, support contracts and upgrade prices for Symphony have been up to 2.5x the price of MC. That means Symphony owners have been paying premium after premium, without getting anything in return.
If you add up the prices of the upgrades from 3 to 5.5, it might have been cheaper to get a brand new license of MC, and use that alongside Symphony.
Also, when asked last year, Avid commented on the forums that they were not abandoning Symphony, that they were committed to continuing it. But they have nothing to show for it so far. So when they release a new version (5.5) and list an MC-only feature (PT hardware support), that's adding insult to injury, IMHO.
So it's time Avid step forward and explain themselves. For a lot of owners/users, Avid has run out of credit. How much longer do they need to buy into the promised commitment?
I say either develop the product, or phase it out. Just roll those two remaining features into the core product, Media Composer, and offer the Symphony owners something to calm them down (difficult, I know, but still).
The whole Symphony adventure is looking like a failure. When introduced, it outfeatured the MC9000, which was sold as their flagship product, and of which they had claimed that it would always have all features, just before they rolled out the original Symphony.
Or bring in some killer features. Even if I personally wouldn't use them, it would be so much more fair to all post houses owning Symphonies.
rgds
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> I ask for your patience in advance, since this post was directed at owners. While I don't own a Symphony, it's extremely important to my bottom line, and I feel that many editors have some vested interest in its continued development and improvement.
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> It seems inarguable that a roadmap for the product is quite necessary, but do you really feel that in its absence you would be better off downgrading to MC? If so, you must have some third party color solution in mind. As superannuated as the Symphony color interface is, it's still exponentially more powerful than that of MC, unless there's something I'm missing here. I had to CC a feature documentary on MC only once, and I'll never consent to do that again.
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> I'm assuming you must have a finishing color solution in mind that will allow you to call Avid's bluff. So do tell, what's the alternative to the Symphony color correction effect?
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> From: Job ter Burg (L2B) <Job_L2@terburg.com>
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