Avid marketing at its best...
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Andi Meek <kwikpasta@...> wrote:
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> They could start by getting their website in order for all the new traffic that may be heading their way. The first thing i see in the store is a mojo component video cable? It should be Media Composer surely! Even the hosts of the supermeet tonight were taking the piss out of FCPX - now is the time to make MC easy to find and purchase!
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> Andi
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> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> From: dylan@...
> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:38:36 +1200
> Subject: [Avid-L2] What will Avid do?
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> So FCP X is useless for TV and Film editing (and weddings too apparently,
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> lack of multicam is a killer there) - what's Avid going to do?
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> They had their crossgrade offer going but that expired last week (or did
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> FCP users are starting to look at their future coices - and the option is
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> pretty much Premiere Pro or Media Composer. I think Avid needs to take
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> action to try and make Media Composer more attractive to those who are
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> looking to the future...
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> The concerns of FCP editor seem to mostly be about project continuity (can
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> they access their archived FCP projects) and hardware support (can they use
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> their Kona and Decklink cards) - presently the answer on both counts is Yes
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> for Premiere Pro and No for Media Composer. I'd like to believe that Media
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> Composer 6 will change those things, but if it is going to then Avid needs
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> to let us know that now - even if it won't be shipping for a while, so
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> Last year I listed some of what I hoped to see in MC6 -
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> http://dylanreeve.com/videotv/avid/2010/great-expectations.html - Some of
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> them are even more important now.
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> I know Avid has rules and regulations that restrict what it can say about
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> future products, but there must be some way? Microsoft teases details of
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> products are are a year or more away.
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> Dylan Reeve
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> http://dylanreeve.com/
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