What we are missing here are costs. Costs of purchase, operations, maintnance, tech support and colorist of any other professional system that is not Color.
The yearly tech support fee which includes .0 upgrades could be as much as 50% of Color's true $25K value.
If you have the necessary budget, clients, and amount of work to pay for all that expense day-in and day-out, go ahead and get it, if you don't... then what's the point of even thinking about it?
Stuart Ferreyra
Timecode Multimedia
Colorist / Finisher / Consultant
Off: 310.826.9199
AIM: stuart.colorist
http://www.timecodemultimedia.com
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