Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Smoke on Mac update

I've seen the demo already. Very nice indeed. It's perfect for a shop like
ours who already have several FCP systems, Media Composers as well as two
Avid DS Nitris. Why? Because we already have a SAN with all the FCP media
on it. With Smoke on Mac, one merely does a soft link to the files. Plus the
XML from FCP into Smoke is brilliant bringing in much of the "offline"
including DVE info. (Rivals MC to DS). So for us, it will be nice to have
options. For Avid offlines, conform on DS. For FCP, conform and finish in
Smoke.

I think this is brilliant and puts tremendous pressure on Avid. Perhaps
eventually, they'll even make batch available on the Mac versions. What
will happen is they will end up selling more of the full Linux based Smoke
systems as a result.

Cheers,
Timothy

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 6:21 AM, switthaus <switthaus@mac.com> wrote:

>
>
> Exactly. So, a chopped off McSmoke and the heinous Autoscreet support
> contract is mandated? For a product that does not conform as well as a
> Symphony or even DS, that gives you a few more tools that could be
> considered niche? And an investment of $25k when you add it all up? No
> thanks...not the industry changer predicted, eh?
>
> Terry, your contacts have any idea on what that support annual cost will
> be? I think for a full blown smoke its in $8 - 10k per year range depending
> on level of support (to be fair, I remember Discreet having very good
> support when needed and at those prices, it should be!)?
>
>

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