- CURRENT AVID MEDIA COMPOSER 8 UPGRADE
- CURRENT AVID MEDIA COMPOSER 8 PRO
- CURRENT AVID MEDIA COMPOSER 8 SOFTWARE
- CURRENT AVID MEDIA COMPOSER 8 LICENSE
CURRENT AVID MEDIA COMPOSER 8 SOFTWARE
When you now purchase Media Composer | Software, the cost is $1299, which covers the cost of the software plus one year of Avid support and any upgrades within the course of that year.
CURRENT AVID MEDIA COMPOSER 8 LICENSE
Most customers are likely to be interested in the changes in how you “own” the software, as the perpetual license model has changed from that of the past. They could choose to augment their “owned” licenses with additional subscription licenses to get through this immediate production crunch. For example, facilities may have a number of perpetual licenses, but need to add a few seats of Media Composer for several months to accommodate an incoming, short-term production. The subscription license is based on an annual commitment ($49.99/mo-individual) or month-by-month ($74.99/mo-individual) rental and may be used by individuals or facilities. The latter applies to larger facilities that are interested in purchasing “packs” of 20 or 50 perpetual licenses, which can be assigned to various machines as their production needs shift. You can now buy or rent Media Composer using three methods: perpetual license (own), subscription (rental) or floating license. Media Composer version 8 is the first release of the application under the new licensing guidelines. Resellers still have these options available, in a version that is compatible with earlier versions of Media Composer.
CURRENT AVID MEDIA COMPOSER 8 UPGRADE
Until this gets resolved, Avid has advised editors who are dependent on ScriptSync or PhraseFind, not to upgrade past Media Composer version 7 software. This is a standalone application geared to Final Cut and Premiere, but is not compatible with Media Composer. Nexidia sells its own products, as well as licenses another application for editors that is sold through BorisFX as Soundbite. Without PhraseFind, you can still search for text found in bin fields, but you cannot search by audio.
Without ScriptSync, you can still create script-based bins, but the alignment of takes to script lines has to be done manually. The Nexidia options add a level of automation to the process through a phonetic match-up between waveforms and typed text. It is important to realize that Avid’s script integration and the internal Find tool are not completely tied to this technology and continue to work fine. While many editors rely on this technology, most do not.
Avid and Nexidia are in current discussions for a new licensing arrangement. Two other past options, PhraseFind and ScriptSync, are currently not available, as these are based on a phonetic search engine technology licensed from Nexidia. They have little bearing on what most independent editors do. NewsCutter and Cloud require a larger facility infrastructure, so I’ll skip them in this discussion. Media Composer | Cloud (formerly known as Interplay Sphere) is essentially a plug-in to Media Composer that allows remote access to an Avid asset management and storage system. NewsCutter, which always was a variation of Media Composer, is now sold as an option, which adds news-centric features to the interface. Added to this are three options: Media Composer | Symphony, Media Composer | NewsCutter and Media Composer | Cloud. Avid released Media Composer version 8.0 in May, but it is only known as Media Composer. The most salient part is a restructuring of licensing and software options.Īvid’s flagship NLE is now known as Media Composer | Software and version numbers are only internal, rather than part of the product branding.
Given that, there’s very little in the Everywhere concept that affects these users.
CURRENT AVID MEDIA COMPOSER 8 PRO
While Everywhere is a over-arching marketing concept, involving “the cloud”, storage, asset management, a marketplace and more, for most independent editors, Avid is all about Media Composer and/or Pro Tools. At NAB Avid presented its Avid Everywhere concept.
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