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

Yes. If you have MC and FCP it makes sense to use the FCP license for the
upgrade! That way you get it all.

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On Apr 15, 2012 5:40 PM, "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

> **
>
>
> I don't understand the logic here:
>
> "Now, we can grab new Symphony licenses for the promo department,
> alleviating any CC bottleneck and move the MC licenses to the FCP seats on
> Konas."
>
> If you upgrade the mc licenses to symphony then you don't have the media
> composers any more. Oh wait just by having the 4 FCP licenses you can get
> symphony upgrades and leave the original mc software licenses alone. That
> sounds right if I understand the offer. So I might be better off using my
> FCP ownership for the upgrade and keep my existing MC system as is.
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Scott Ham <scottham.list@...> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Terence Curren <tcurren@...> wrote:
> >
> > > **
> > >
> > >
> > > Well Scott, as usual we disagree. You have this notion that no one will
> > > ever want a two tiered product line. But even Apple, kings of
> simplicity
> > > and marketing prowess disagree with you. For example:
> > >
> > > iMovie - FCP X
> > > iPhoto = Aperture
> > > Garage Band - Logic Pro
> > >
> > > These are example of lower cost products, potentially feeding a higher
> > > cost product line which can drive more R&D dollars to develop the
> features
> > > that only the higher cost system users might need. Using this model,
> MC for
> > > the masses, and Symphony with ever increasing higher end feature sets
> makes
> > > a lot of sense.
> > >
> > > Of course the caveat is that Avid hasn't been developing the feature
> set
> > > for Symphony for a loooooonnngggg time. However, if we are to take
> Dave at
> > > his word (and knowing Dave I do), then we are going to see this history
> > > change.
> > >
> >
> > For us, this deal is kind of a no brainer. We have a Symphony that we've
> > been using for finishing on promo work. We have three Avid MC seats that
> > are in the promo department and four FCP doing spot and other work.
> >
> > Now, we can grab new Symphony licenses for the promo department,
> > alleviating any CC bottleneck and move the MC licenses to the FCP seats
> on
> > Konas.
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
>
>

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