Insanity? Double The Price For What? |
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Sep 11 2014, 09:55 PM
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Maybe they got inspired by the Vertex wah incident?
 I am happy to already own the duet, for this new price I might have chosen a different path (although i am happy with the interface). |
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Sep 11 2014, 10:02 PM
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eheheh welcome to Protools world
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Sep 11 2014, 10:17 PM
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http://audioxpress.com/article/Avid-and-Ap...ls-Systems.html
It looks like it is actually being sold with ProTools 11 as well. So that makes way more sense. As the Duet is what like $500 and ProTools is $600? -------------------- Guitars:
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Sep 12 2014, 05:09 AM
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Seems a bit steep IMHO. WHen they bundle software in, they will usually chop it down a bit. Seems like they are trying to charge list.
QUOTE (SpaseMoonkey @ Sep 11 2014, 05:17 PM)  http://audioxpress.com/article/Avid-and-Ap...ls-Systems.html It looks like it is actually being sold with ProTools 11 as well. So that makes way more sense. As the Duet is what like $500 and ProTools is $600? |
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Sep 12 2014, 02:44 PM
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1) it's Avid so not a lot of discounting.
2) Avid is in bad financial shape. Delisted from Nasdaq and their stock is down 85% from it's height in 2004. *I'm sure it will 'street' for less. This post has been edited by klasaine: Sep 12 2014, 02:45 PM -------------------- - Ken Lasaine
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Sep 13 2014, 10:52 AM
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There are reasons why PT is often mocked as 'Pro Fools' in the industry...
For a long time part of the strategic policy at the Beeb has been about 'value for money'(VfM) with regard to production costs. I can't speak for video but with regard to audio the Beeb are always a bit interesting in hardware and software choices. The Beeb likes sadie and has used it for years and the current preferred daw is the full blown version of sadie. The Beeb pay for x number of end user licenses on a typical corporate deal with sadie in line with this and it is there for use on major productions; low budget/profile productions are expected to use a different daw as sadie is kind of regard as 'overkill' for a small production. It may well be that the Beeb has decided that the cost of x number of Avid end user licenses for all video is too much and so either restricts Avid to a limited number of high profile/budget, or has dumped it entirely. Essentially it's no longer viewed as providing sufficent 'VfM' to justify its continued use over any other platform. Whilst FCPX may have teething issues it delivers better VfM than Avid... -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Also, FCPX doesn't require any dedicated hardware and can run on portable machines just as well as workstations (as long as they sport an apple logo of course) so folks in the field can use it just the same as guys in the edit suite. Also, it's training wheel simple for folks who've never edited before. Also, as you mentioned it's DIRT CHEEP compared to Avid, which is why so many universities adopted it even when FCPX was just horrible. They keep adding pro features in each update thank goodness. It will eventually be a valid replacement for FCP7 it seems. That is, if everyone hasn't switched to premiere by then.
 
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