[Bill Denton]

Originally Posted by lexaudio

Ergo, the whole problem. You are in such defense of AVID, you might as well have your whole head up their butt.

Again, as stated. AVID is basically crowd funding here. The service plan is not a service. It is snake oil.
There is probably 5-7 percent of the users who would only ever even use it.

Honestly, I think a lot of us are trying to save AVID from itself.

They are trying to model themselves off of Adobe and MS. Problem is, there are more MS and Adobe users on the west coast then there are in the entire AVID user base, including video.

Audio/Video is a niche market. And high end is even smaller.

I can bet there are more MS office users in LA then there are in the entire USA of AVID users.

AVID's trying to be what they aren't. Accounting or not. They are screwing themselves royal.
You are as bad as they are defending it.

Your an IT guy, professional accountant, and audio professional? Or are you just someone who has too much time on their hands, things they know they industry and can express expertly what and how things go?

Seriously. At some point, you would think you would get that people don't care about AVID's accounting, profit margin to make shareholders happy, ect.

We, the users, see the writing on the wall. The users are getting screwed.

I wouldn't be surprised if they release buggy software "on purpose", to make the "support plan" look more attractive.
And there is always some one who inside who will leak that information eventually.

What AVID is offering is nothing WE the user wants. The real users. Not the bedroom/weekend warrior user with a $200 interface and vanilla.
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So what is the reason you are "really" defending AVID? Because at the end of the day, week, month or year it really doesn't matter to you.

You are just someone with no experience in pro audio/video who happens to own a single copy of pro tools vanilla.

Your an IT guy, professional accountant, and audio professional?

Let's see...

• I have worked as a programmer/analyst/system architect for 26 years. I've also purchased a lot of hardware, software, and network equipment. I've bought high-end professional software that used the same "service plan" model Avid is moving to.
• As I have often stated, I AM NOT an accountant. However I have written and modified systems for a couple of what used be called the "Big 6" accounting firms, and quite a bit of my other work has involved accounting systems...I've had to learn some accounting in order to do my job. Obviously, in order to write business systems, I have had to learn more than a little bit about business.
• I've wired up three or four radio station control rooms...I wouldn't call myself an "audio professional", but I do know my way around some pro audio gear.

I have never either defended nor condemned what Avid is doing...I have simply explained why they are doing it.

Neither am I an Avid "fanboi"...if the damned temperature in Pittsburgh ever gets back to a reasonable level (it's -3 air/-13 wind chill) I will be back in my unheated basement studio where I am learning Cubase, which will be my primary DAW going forward. Unfortunately, space heaters don't do much good at those temperatures.

I'm still here on the DUC because some things have come up that might make it a good idea to keep my Pro Tools rig up-to-date and going.