While the most recent MC and Symphony upgrade cost were the same, in the past they were higher, which caused an uproar by Symphony owners, since there wasn't anything new being added to Symphony. Avid did the right thing by making both upgrade costs the same. I don't remember when this changed. Think it was fairly recently though.
My hope is, by doing this deal - the limited time $995 crossgrade, Avid is hoping to get more Symphony systems out in the wild, which would help them justify the development costs for creating unique features for Symphony, like the long over due Improvements to the CC. If they do add new features exclusive to Symphony, I would expect to see a different price point for Symphony and MC upgrades. And if these features are something worth while, I wouldn't really have a problem with that.
But, If they did set different price points for Symphony & MC again, without introducing new features for Symphony, then ya, Dylan is right, that would truly be a dick move. I really don't see them doing that.
jamie
On Apr 28, 2012, at 2:38 AM, Dylan Reeve wrote:
> Most recent upgrade was priced same as Media Composer.
>
> Upselling people to Symphony then pinging them for higher upgrade cost
> would be a dick move and social media/PR disaster. Hopefully not going to
> happen.
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> On Apr 28, 2012 7:06 PM, "Dan McCabe" <danlist@bestmail.us> wrote:
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>> The only downside/unknown that has made me hesitate is the cost
>> of future upgrades of Symphony vs MC.
>> D.
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012, at 08:12 AM, Steve Hullfish wrote:
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>> As an owner of both, since as long as Symphony's been around, I
>> can tell you that Symphony can do everything that MC can do.
>> There are no processes in Symphony that are easier in MC.
>> Symphony is the better box for sure in all aspects.
>> You will NOT be able to tell whether you are using MC or Symphony
>> AT ALL unless you are in the color correction mode or doing a
>> layoff using Universal Mastering. In EVERY other function, the
>> two are 100% identical in features and operation.
>> Steve Hullfish
>> contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
>> author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
>> On Apr 27, 2012, at 8:00 AM, Robert wrote:
>>>
>>> So watching that NAB video got me thinking...is there any
>> functionality in MC that's NOT in Symphony?
>>>
>>> (I didn't do the FCP/Avid crossgrade last summer, but a summer,
>> winter and spring where I've consistently worked on Media
>> Composer again has me thinking a copy at home might make my life
>> easier...and $999 beats $1499).
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