[Jeremy Garchow] "If I was a new Avid customer and had no experience with the company, should I expect to pay an extra 5 thousand dollars for secondaries and perhaps Boris?"
No. Don't. Why on earth would you? You're exactly who Media Composer was designed for, so ignore Symphony. MOST people should ignore Symphony. That's one of the things they're trying to tell you with the price. This isn't a product most people need or should even necessarily want.
Avid wants Media Composer to be the product that MOST people buy, which is why they price it the way they do. But as long as there are sales people and dealers, there will be options.
Seriously, the existence of Symphony isn't stopping you from buying a product, any product, from Avid. I'd be surprised if any such person exists. There are many, many better reasons to reject a company than that they give you two options instead of one. Being known as the company with two options is the least of Avid's issues, for them, their current customers or their potential ones.
Tim Wilson
Vice President, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW Magazine
Twitter: timdoubleyou
The typos here are most likely because I'm, a) typing this on my phone; and b) an idiot.
