Ellory Yu wrote:Maybe if you’re looking at the M1 solution, it’s time to jump out of the Avid MC ship and on board with the Blackmagic Resolve.
Ellory, if you work as a freelance editor, you can't just jump ship. I've never been offered one single actual editing job on Resolve. Yes I use it in finishing and that's becoming more common (but even there Symphony represents 90% of my work) but most editors would starve if they abandoned Avid. It's not a choice. And that's why Avid can charge and behave so. I'm afraid if you work and earn your living in Avid and use it locally, rather than just as a remote desktop solution like Teradici, it is currently inadvisable to invest in Mac M1 technology, I'm very sorry to say. I'm also sorry to say users had fair warning and invested anyway.
Please understand, I'm not defending Avid. I believe the current management are doing long term damage to the brand by forcing through subscription and concentrating development on cloud infrastructure, that no one really wants and for which there are already better and cheaper solutions. They are doing this because it has demonstrated short to medium term shareholder return and profit stability. I pay over £500 a year, for a licence I already own, in mandatory 'support' that I never need, that will end in 2 years, as they stop perpetual licences. Meanwhile actual development has crawled to a snail pace, with cosmetic tweaks, a disastrous new Titler, over 4 years in development and countless bugs. Most facilities have stayed on earlier versions for this reason. As I say we can't go anywhere else since our bread and butter is dependent on this software. I dream of the day it can be all Resolve, believe me but currently the edit page is the weakest link in Resolve, from where it needs to be to capture the huge pool of professional editors and I have told Blackmagic this - I am willing to help at any time, I have said also.