I've always found the cost of edit software to be a small part of the overall budget. The cost of buying and maintaining hardware (monitors, storage etc) is the area where more savings can be made by switching brands or going for cheaper service providers for things like cloud storage.
Assuming you have something like 3-5 perpetual Avid licences, the maintenance costs are around $1500 per year, so not a huge amount to be able to stay up to date with software upgrades. I find a lot of production houses choose a stable version of MC and stick with it for the duration of the project. If that's the case, there's no need to upgrade or pay the yearly fee to Avid, so in that sense (like Resolve) it costs nothing more. At the end of the day, it's a business expense and can be set against any company taxes.
The potential cost in lost hours due to limitations in software would make me think seriously about turning any long-running show over to a new edit system.
A friend of mine is asking me my thoughts about this the concept of Resolve replacing MC for a Multi cam double system sound reality show environment.My immediate thought is that this is an insane terrible idea, notwithstanding that to retrain editors is a mountain of a task. (I believe most would rebel and quit having to change)They said the reason is that resolve is cheaper (terrible reason)
- I already see issues with
- Sync Maps,
- Multigroups
- Basic Editorial Speed
- Protools aaf export
- simplicity of search
- Training
- Shared storage
- Cloud future.
And the list goes on.
Has anyone successfully seen resolve work in a multi-editor offline environment.Any other thoughts are appreciated.
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