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Avid Launches Media Composer 6, Symphony 6, NewsCutter 10

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Avid today announced new versions of its flagship video editing software products, Media Composer 6, Symphony 6 and NewsCutter 10.
Media Composer version 6, Symphony version 6 and NewsCutter version 10 are rebuilt from the core on an entirely new open, 64-bit architecture that raises the bar for performance, flexibility and productivity. With this version, Avid is also introducing a sleek, new User Interface--designed to speed workflows while simultaneously preserving the same functionality that so many professionals have built their careers on.
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- Media Composer 6.0 starts at $2499 with upgrades starting at $299.
- NewsCutter 10 starts at $2499 with upgrades starting at $499.
- Symphony 6.0 starts at $5,999 with upgrades starting at $499.
- Nitris DX starts at $5,499 USD.

Media Composer Academic 6.0 starts at $295 for educational institutions and students.

Avid continues to offer a discount to Final Cut Pro (not FCP X) users who switch to Media Composer. The company is offering Media Composer 6 plus free online training to help users move from FCP for $1499.

The company says it is "investigating" the Mac App Store as a distribution point for its software, but has nothing to announce yet. Media Composer 6, Symphony 6, and NewsCutter 10 will be available on November 15.

Article Link: Avid Launches Media Composer 6, Symphony 6, NewsCutter 10
 
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https://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/03/avid-launches-media-composer-6-symphony-6-newscutter-10/
Uh.. Pros

MultiMediaWill said:
Who the **** spends that kind of money on software... $6000!!! are you insane!?!?!?
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Pros do.. who spends $299 on "Pro" software lol

We'll there goes any doubt if Apple had any chance at the Pro market with X. The release of FCPX should have been held off until it was ready for the pro market and charged at least $599. So sad to loose such an awesome user base as the TV & Film industry.
 
VivaLaDricas said:
I will get the hate on this one.

I blame no one for pirating software at those prices. Even Adobe charges outrageous amounts. I know ten people using photoshop, I know 0 that paid for it. If the prices were fair then piracy would go down. (possibly)
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Depends on how much money they're making on it. If it's very little or nothing, then I don't think anyone really cares. If they're making a LOT of money, however....
 
MultiMediaWill said:
Who the **** spends that kind of money on software... $6000!!! are you insane!?!?!?
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My company pays 3500$ per machine just for the development environment, plus around 30,000$ per CPU for the production environment's software. Not all software is 0.99$. Especially for corporations.

This is cheap dude.
 
mikeandbecka said:
Pros do.. who spends $299 on "Pro" software lol
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You do realize that Apple's prices don't really mean anything? They buy 25k costing software and sell it for 1k. They've done it many times before. Apple cuts prices so they can sell Macs because their software doesn't run on Win/Linux.

So FCPX being 299$ doesn't mean it's a 299$ worth software. Same as Color was worth 20k before Apple included it in 1k costing suite.
 
This looks pretty awesome. Can't wait to use it. Symphony for $6000? Yes Please! These used to cost 6 figures - but of course that was a turnkey system. It's really awesome to see technology evolve!
 
Avid is continuing its assault on Apple's treatment of pros with this release. Pro Tools 10 just announced about a month ago, which I am happily upgrading to. Now once we (possibly) lose the Mac Pro, do I see an Apple-less audio post studio next year? I hope not but it's something in the back of my brain.
 
darthraige said:
Yea it does. It's junk. I've been an editor for years and it's a HUGE step down. There are no "pro" features in X at all.
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There's no clear definition of "pro features". There are tons of professionals who can get away with the first release of FCPX. You are not one of them, big deal. But it's so stupid to say "who spends $299 on "Pro" software lol"

(That wasn't you I'm replying)

Color was included in a 1000$ costing suite, basically Color alone would have been sold for couple hundred bucks if they sold it separately. But it wasn't a couple hundred bucks worth of software. It costed 20k before Apple bought it.

And it was a pro application. So by that logic that, people shouldn't have been bought and used Color, because it was cheap, so it can't be pro.
 
knewsom said:
For software that WORKS and does what we NEED it to do (unlike certain Apple products whom I am abandoning), it's cheap.
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I just cut together a major project on Final Cut Pro X. It was a multicam project. In some scenes there were 6 shots up at the same time. I also assembled animation in it, quite a few titles, had to color correct everything quite a bit because of a lighting issue, etc.

Final Cut Pro X worked great. In fact, in the 20+ years I've been editing this has been the best experience ever. BY FAR.

FCPX takes all of the drudge out of editing and you can work at the speed of your thoughts. Its a dream!

Sure, there isn't that silly live type that FCP used to have.... but if you think you're a "professional" and not having live type is a problem, I've got news for you: You're not a professional.

I think there are some areas where it can be improved. While livetype was a gimmicky feature, the type system needs more flexibility. I used motion to do a custom opening sequence (and it worked great) but I don't want to go to motion all the time... though we're just creating a couple bumpers and titles that we'll use all the time, type in FCPX sans motion could be improved.

And I ran into a couple bugs.

But anyone who claims they're abandoning FCPX because they're "professional" and it isn't "professional" is wrong on both counts.

I know there are editor assistants-- trained button pushers-- people who don't understand technology and thus it will take a long time to teach them how to use FCPX because even an intuitive interface doesn't work for them because to be intuitive they have to understand what video is... but these are people who were never going to advance much in their career anyway, and they're a small part of the market (but obviously noisy.)
 
knewsom said:
For software that WORKS and does what we NEED it to do (unlike certain Apple products whom I am abandoning), it's cheap.
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I hope it's all Avid's marketing makes it out to be.
I bit on the offer to switch from FCP/Studio to Media Composer 5 and it forced my Mac Pro into 32-bit mode after which it would not boot until I uninstalled Media Composer 5.
Thankfully, I got my money back.

Nice to see Avid is touting a 64-bit version now, but I have such a bad taste in my mouth now, I'll never give them another chance -- they should have put the 64-bit out there right up front, before trying to claim they had an edge on Apple. The 64-bit OS and my Mac Pro has been out now for over a year and it was just last month that I went through that hell -- Avid had MORE than enough time to do the 64-bit, BEFORE causing me so much grief.

Meanwhile, last week I gave the FCP/X 10.0.1 trial and was happy that I could import my FCP/Studio work, *AND* in general I found that I was able to produce a polished video with titles, transitions, and effects in about 1/3rd of the time it would have taken with FCP/Studio. In fact the video I made with FCP/X 10.0.1 is far better than I could have done with FCP/Studio, because in FCP/X, pretty much everything is already geared toward 1080p, so I didn't have to go into Motion to tweak any of the titles to work with 1080p -- something I was constantly having to do with FCP/Studio, and an area where I spent far far too much time.

Sure, FCP/X still needs multi-cam support, but in the mean-time I'm able to function for a lot of my work and I only need to go back to FCS/P once in a while.

Bottom line is I'm "sticking it out" with FCP/X and have faith that Apple will add the multi-cam support as promised...and even if that takes a year, I am fine with juggling between the two versions, since nothing stops me from running one or the other.
 
mikeandbecka said:
Pros do.. who spends $299 on "Pro" software lol
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Pros don't care about the price of the product, they care about whether it lets them accomplish what they need to accomplish efficiently.

FCPX does that better than any other product, and at a lower price.

Anyone claiming that the low price will drive off Pros is an idiot.

The only people who would be put off by a low price for such a good product are people who are posturing.

Do you really go around bragging about how much you spent on your editing software?

That's reminds me of the Leica collectors who show off their expensive kit but never shoot anything.

We'll there goes any doubt if Apple had any chance at the Pro market with X. The release of FCPX should have been held off until it was ready for the pro market and charged at least $599. So sad to loose such an awesome user base as the TV & Film industry.
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It's ready for the pro market. I work in the film industry. I'm using it. Apple hasn't lost it at all.

Apple has lost the employees of Avid and Adobe and the general Apple haters who hang out in these forums and make up anything they can to bash Apple.

You guys never realize how stupid you look.

For the past 10 years you've been telling us the iPod was a fad and that the next piece of crap was going to kill it. For the past 4 years you've been saying that about the iPhone. For the past 20 years you've been saying the mac had no chance, and you've continued to say it even while the mac has been outgrowing the rest of hte industry and increasing share for the past 5 years. You keep telling us the iPad is going to fall to whatever crap some company puts out with android on it.... and of course you never say why. You can't give specifics.

Now you're saying FCPX isn't "professional"-- a completely arbitrary word to begin with-- and you can't give specifics.

i'm a professional. I just did a major piece in FCPX. It's the best editing software I've ever used.

You're full of it.

And nobody who's worth a damn is buying your BS, which you and your ilk have been peddling for decades, and continue to do so despite being wrong EVERY SINGLE TIME.

In fact, you guys made the exact same complaint about the original final cut!
 
VivaLaDricas said:
I will get the hate on this one.

I blame no one for pirating software at those prices. Even Adobe charges outrageous amounts. I know ten people using photoshop, I know 0 that paid for it. If the prices were fair then piracy would go down. (possibly)
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You are right ... how dare companies charge so much for specialty software. It is unfair to be able to look at their R&D expenses and market share and set their own price.
 
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