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However Avid obviously feels that the few extra features in Symphony are significant enough to justify a higher price than Media Composer. Once Symphony became able to operate in software-only mode, as well as with third-party hardware then the cost no longer included specific hardware and in came down to reflect the changes. So the cost included that hardware, and because not many people needed all that it offered it was higher cost (also because it offered more, they could charge more). The Avid Nitris box – while Media Composer has been available for sometime as software only (and with lower cost Mojo and Mojo SDI hardware before that) the Symphony continued to rely on the features of the specific Avid hardware. Until very recently (v6.0 in fact) Symphony required very specific Avid hardware to function. But the one (and a half) features that truly set Symphony apart from Media Composer now are very significant for some users and continue to justify the differentiation in products. However over time many (all but one and a half, in fact) of Symphony’s features made it into Media Composer. It had support for uncompressed media, better effects, colour correction and also had HD support before Media Composer. Originally in the days of Offline/Online editing the Symphony was a very specific finishing tool. Symphony is Media Composer’s big brother. NewsCutter, as the name suggests, is mainly intended for use in a broadcast news environment, it has tight integration with Avid’s Interplay and iNews products to allow for more efficient editing within an Avid newsroom environment (you may not realise, but Avid makes a lot of products really targeted at TV news production). These two products are developed from the same source code as Media Composer – when there’s a new version of Media Composer there is usually a new version of Symphony and NewsCutter too. It also has two cousins (actually more like fraternal twins), NewsCutter and Symphony. There is the main product, Media Composer – most people just call it Avid – this is the editing tool that we’re used to and what Avid promotes most heavily.
So, what is Symphony? Why was it so expensive? Why is it so much cheaper at the moment? What’s different? And, crucially, should you buy it?Īvid’s Media Composer product is kind of split in three. Only five or six years ago an Avid Symphony system would have cost nearly US$100,000.
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That is a $5,000 discount on the full price, and $2,500 discount on the Avid Media Composer crossgrade price.
HOW TO ADD EFFECT TO AUDIO CLIP IN AVID MEDIA COMPOSER 8 UPGRADE
You can crossgrade your Final Cut Pro (V7 or before) or upgrade your old Avid (Xpress Pro, Xpress DV or Media Composer) license to a brand new Symphony v6.0 license for a meagre US$995. Avid is currently (until June 15, 2012) running a special upgrade/crossgrade promo on Avid Symphony.