Unless there are some big Symphony feature enhancement announcements at NAB, for users who either don't need (or can't access) Universal Mastering (due to non-Nitris DX hardware) -- I think the decision largely boils down to one question;
-- Do I spend $1k on a Symphony upgrade for the CC Tool -- which is not the core competency of the company, has no where near the features of other CC tools -- and is supported by a team that hasn't seen fit to upgrade it for 11 years ...
-- Or do I spend $1k (?) on the Baselight plugin -- or (variably) more on a Resolve solution (either within the same CPU or externally)?
Unfortunately, a factor that must be added to that equation is the historical fact that Symphony (as a platform) has been largely ignored by Avid for many, many years. And up until very recently, owners have had to pay a significant premium for updates that offer no additional features beyond the MC update.
I suppose that next week we'll see if Avid has "evolved" the CC Tool so that it compares favorably with featureset of Baselight or Resolve. I certainly hope so.
What we won't learn is whether or not Symphony will continue to be an "orphan" child going forward -- in terms of continued and sustained innovation. And, we won't learn if future updates will revert back to the excessive price premiums above the identical MC updates. I don't mind paying for real innovation -- but I would mind paying more for the same feature upgrades that a lower (MC) platform is getting.
No disrespect intended -- just my point-of-view.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@...> wrote:
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> It's identical. You don't even know you're in Symphony unless you go into color correction mode, basically, and even then, almost all of the tabs operate identically to MC6. This is one of those cases that if you don't know that it operates differently, why complain about it?
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> Steve Hullfish
> contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
> author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
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> On Apr 12, 2012, at 11:27 AM, George Loch wrote:
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> > Like I said, it's been under the radar for me so, I wasn't sure if the UI experience was the same as MC. I presume version 6 is the same as MC 6?
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