because I gave them a dongle to take home. There was no motivation for
pirating.
When we upgraded our Avid lab we went to software activation and a couple
kids had cracked Avids but they weren't stable. The CS suite and FCP suite
cracks were stable and easy to find and the kids had them installed on their
laptops and iMacs before the semester even started. Could they all get a
cracked version of Avid? I'm sure they could, some did, but most didn't.
They already had 2 edit softwares they'd been using before class started.
Besides, they were playing around in After Effects by then.
Michael
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Rupert Watson <rupert@root6.com> wrote:
> **
>
>
> I know this will sound odd, but why weren't they running cracked Avid
> copies if they loved it that much?
>
> Clearly they should not have been running any, but as far as that sort of
> thing goes it is an even playing field isn't it?
>
> Rupert Watson
>
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> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of malanhancock
> Sent: 28 June 2011 22:46
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: The FCPX thread
>
> Institutions pay $295/license but don't get 4 years of free upgrades. Gotta
> buy a yearly support contract to stay current.
>
> When I taught at a community college we bought 20 licenses of Media
> Composer. Whatever reseller my boss bought through got us a discount - maybe
> 10 or 15% on the bulk purchase? It was cheaper than FCP suites, I remember
> that.
>
> That said, all of my students loved Avid by the end of the semester but ran
> pirated copies of FCP or the Adobe suite and used those at home. Maybe 2
> students owned legit copies, but the rest had cracked copies and every
> plugin in the world (also cracked).
>
> Michael
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com> , Steve
> Hullfish <steve4lists@...> wrote:
> >
> > I don't know what the cost is to the INSTITUTIONS though. Colleges don't
> go out drinking, though college KIDS do.
> >
> > These institutions are strapped. Even if they have huge endowments,
> they're still strapped somehow.
> >
> > I don't know what kind of deals FCP made with these places, but Avid's
> deal has to be at least as sweet as Apple's.
> >
> > The educational version of Avid is about the same price as the Full
> version of FCP X (though I don't think there's any reason that's an apples -
> to - apples comparison. And FCP X will certainly cost a student more than
> the original $300 over the course of the next four years.
> >
> > So, the kid I help mentor bought the ed. version already. He said that
> the on-line videos weren't much help to him. I've never watched them, so I
> can't comment. He's pretty bright and talented, so that says something to
> me.
> >
> > Winning over the kids is not going to happen unless you can get at the
> teachers and the institutions themselves, so that's where the effort needs
> to be placed.
> >
> > I saw that my post got put on the Avid forums, and the ed. department
> responded to it, but they responded to it with "business as usual. We
> already are doing stuff." It's great that there's already stuff in place,
> but the MARKETING department has to jump on this and collaborate. This is
> where the whole corporate philosophy of companies sucks, because the
> education department has their budget and their mission and the marketing
> boys have theirs and never the two shall meet.... sadly. It's all about who
> gets what inside a company, not what it does for the overall good.
> >
> >
> > Steve Hullfish
> > contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
> >
> >
> > On Jun 28, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Rupert Watson wrote:
> >
> > > I think £184 for MC with four years of free upgrades is pretty good.
> That is £46 a year.
> > >
> > > All they got to do is not go out drinking a couple of nights a term and
> they are all set.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
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