Does the student version have all features enabled or is there any limitation?HTML Code:"New Student Edu pricing for the Media Composer Software - $295 US MSRP"
If it is same then, there is no doubt that it will be best deal ever.
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03-17-2008, 06:57 PM
Does the student version have all features enabled or is there any limitation?HTML Code:"New Student Edu pricing for the Media Composer Software - $295 US MSRP"
If it is same then, there is no doubt that it will be best deal ever.
03-17-2008, 10:51 PM
If it's anything like FCP and how Apple does things, it'll be fully functional, but won't be upgradeable (beyond point upgrades) and you aren't supposed to use it in a professional manor. (i.e. make money with it.)Originally Posted by REDefine
03-17-2008, 11:21 PM
Academic version is fully functional... I think it's usually upgradeable like normal versions (so major version upgrades usually incur an extra fee) but I believe it doesn't include the extra software that full version includes. And possibly no printed manuals, but I'm not sure about that one. I've never purchased an Academic version.
03-19-2008, 06:46 AM
If only fully functional HD-SDI I/O on new hardware at Aja/BM prices, the ability to capture uncompressed HD with said hardware...then there would really be something worth talking about.
03-19-2008, 08:07 AM
Don't hold your breath. Avid is in the business of selling heavy iron HARDWARE. They will never do that, which is why they are losing market share every day.
03-19-2008, 01:13 PM
It will get there, two years ago it dropped from extremely expensive hardware/software bundle to $5000. Now it's $2500.
I gave my FCP license to a friend a couple of years ago to upgrade, and was about to buy new FCP studio - now I am seriously considering going to MC.
There are and always were some advantages for heavy duty work on AVID, but just wasn't worth the big price difference - now it is fairly small.
Further a lot of the things that we liked about apple vs Avid don't seem to be as true. For years I have felt strongly that Final cut was a core product for apple to keep improving and keep relatively inexpensive because it sold hardware. Now in the Ipod/Iphone era I am afraid Apple may be content to coast for a while.
Now Avid - once the maxi-priced, bloated big dog - is getting lean - and since editing is their core business they have little choice but to try to keep improving and maintain or improve market share. And they have always worked with the higher end projects so will keep pushing that envelope. Since all of us REDusers are moving toward the high end (even if only in the sense of pushing 4K files around) I think we need to reconsider the APPLE/AVID tradeoffs. AVID doesn't need to compete solely on price - they just need to get close enough that we aren't completely uncomfortable with the additional cost. The $3800 $1299 to $5K price difference was enough to keep me away - but $1200 difference when I've already invested $30K in the camera and $4K on the computer doesn't seem like enough difference to worry about if there are any advantages.
03-19-2008, 01:22 PM
Would be great if they could certify the Quadro 4500/5500 SDI and then integrate Speedgrade...all within MC. That would make matching tool sets at a similar price point. Oh, they'd have to buy IRIDAS though...
03-19-2008, 02:09 PM
Matching? That would be outright destroying the competition. I don't know if I would even put Speedgrade and Color in the same sentence.
03-19-2008, 02:12 PM
Never say never.
03-19-2008, 02:40 PM
I hear that Avid's been working quite closely with Filmlight - but what that migh mean in the longer term is unclear. Hopefully Avid Media and AAF support in Baselight - that would be awesome. Consolidate a sequence to hard drive, plug it into a Baselight and grade... :)
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