Not trying to be argumentative. If you need it NOW, you can download the fully functional trial for Boris RED AVX from Boris FX. The new version actually has a few improvements over the final incarnation of Avid FX, if you even care at this point. Your frustration is understood.
On Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 'steve4lists@veralith.com' steve4lists@veralith.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> That page has a link to buy it, but the link is broken. I'd found this page earlier, but you CAN'T BUY IT FROM HERE!!!!!!!!! (no offense to you trying to help) but it is like Avid ACTIVELY doesn't want you to buy stuff. Not just "Doesn't care" but is TRULY DEDICATED to not allowing customers buy their products.
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> So, any money any of us spent on PhraseFind or ScriptSync or Avid FX - which are fairly big ticket items - aren't really YOURS at all. So if you spent a grand or two or three on these products last year, they are LITERALLY worthless less than six months later. How can Avid expect to keep any kind of customer confidence when $3K can be flushed down the toilet on a whim?
> Would many people have bought those products if they'd known that just going to the next version would mean you no longer own them?
> The real big issue here is that Avid is a MUCH less capable NLE without Avid FX. Now you are talking about an NLE that for effects and color correction is stuck in the 1990s. We're not talking about just being a year or two or three behind the competition (in a tech industry where I'd think that being 6 months behind would be deadly) we're talking about behind TWO DECADES behind the competition.
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> On Oct 14, 2014, at 9:42 PM, "Benjamin Hershleder Ben@ContactBen.com [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> I hope this helps….
> http://www.avid.com/US/resources/media-composer-plugins
> I feel your frustration Steve. Hang in there!
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> On Oct 14, 2014, at 6:34 PM, "'steve4lists@veralith.com' steve4lists@veralith.com [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> I understand that it is no longer bundled. I just want to BUY it. How do you do that?
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> I do know that it is really RED.
> I'm on the road so I have no access to my old installer. Actually I want to install it so I can show a big Avid client how to use it so maybe they will buy dozens of copies. Sadly they will lose those sales as well.
> How is it that Avid unbundles it - which you would figure that they are doing because they can't pay the licensing fee anymore - and so expect their customers to pay extra - which I'm not happy with, but I understand - but then they DON'T GIVE YOU A WAY TO BUY IT!!!! This could be a PROFIT CENTER. But Avid is squandering every single opportunity that they have to be profitable.
> The same goes for Nexidia and ScriptSync and PhraseFind. I get it, Avid, you can't afford the licensing fee. Fine. Then let Nexidia use the license to sell me a product of their own. All I want is the damn CAPABILITY! Do SOMETHING to get the train back on the rails. Let Boris sell Avid FX. I think it's stupid not to try to take a cut when you can, but at least let me get my hands on the capability.
> There was just a thread here about how we all bitch about how bad Avid effects are but that much of the stuff people want from the effects palette is actually IN Avid FX. But now even THAT is gone, leaving us stuck back in 1995 for effects capabilities.
> Just passed the one hour mark on hold with customer "support." I remember this was how phone support was a decade or two ago, then it got better. Clearly, we're back to the impossibly long wait times.
> An hour and four minutes...
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