Re: [Avid-L2] News: Avid Offers Unprecedented Limited-Time Symphony 6 Crossgrade Promotion

The thing about differentiated features, is that they have to be PRETTY DIFFERENT. They aren't.

MCs color correction tools are SUPER basic and Symphony's color correction tools are REALLY basic.

Symphony has Universal Mastering which most MC users wouldn't even know what to do with and a lot of Symphony users don't care about in this post-tape-layoff world.

Let's see Symphony with world class effects and color correction. Then there would be some differentiation.

The scary thing is that that means that MC would be missing features that are on FCP and Premiere anyway, so you'd leave MC at a disadvantage.

BTW, this comes from someone who owns both Media Composers and a Symphony. Sadly, my 15 year old Avid Symphony is barely even cosmetically different from one bought off the shelf today.

Steve Hullfish
contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"

On Apr 13, 2012, at 3:01 PM, haus wrote:

> Dave -
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> Has Avid ever considered merging the two products? Is there really enough revenue to go around in the market to support two products? Is Avid willing to piss off the Media Composer user-base by letting the products get so close, then "holding MC back" while Symphony gets a feature that the much larger MC base could really use? A lot of us just don't get it. It's a shame you can't publicly talk about Avid's vision of the two products going forward.
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, David Colantuoni <david.colantuoni@...> wrote:
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> > Symphony is not going away. We see a product line with differentiated features.
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