Hi
I work in a high end post prod commercial studio. We use pro tools. I've been lurking arond though for alternatives and found, for instance Nuendo, now in its fourth edition, wich seem to be catching on in big business post. More and more feature movies have been edited and mixed with Nuendo. Now, Sequoia comes along with a price tag 1000$ higher than Nuendo. I say to myself: wow! this program must be awsome. But, as I read info on the product site, there doesn't seem to be arguments there to support Sequoia's superiority over Nuendo (at least price tag wise). I am really curious though.
Here are some thoughts that go through my head about sequoia
- What is Sequoia's target market? Film post, music mix, what is it optimised for?
- If Sequoia so expensive, why then does it share it's its web site in a semi confusing way with samplitude as if both of them had not enough standing to have a web site of there own? Cubase and Nuendo are both made by the same company. Both, though, have very distinct uses and crowds, Cubase is for musicians, Nuendo is for Post Production. Sequoia and Samplitude seem to have the same use.
- I read on the site Sequoia is proud to announce that it now supports quad core processors. I mean wow! Sonar costs 500$ and support eight cores and is already 64bit compatible. Hello???
- Is there a list of productions made with Sequoia, I mean professionals that have trusted Sequoia on real world productions and have achievd success?
- How come sequoia is so unknowned and at the same time so expensive? Shouldn't it be the contrary?
- A part of me says maybe this program is the best out there cause it is so expensive and, you never know, maybe these people have hired a genius programmer and all. But at the same time, there is an '' out of the blue'' fealing that emanates from sequoya.
- The name Magix. I'll be honnest with you, we have an immage problem here. I once bought a video editing program from Magix. It was a cheapo consumer product. Magix. It sounds too magical. There isn't anyting ''magix'' about taking the decision to buy a 3000$ program and putting all you hopes into it for being the center block of your studio.
- I am afraid that if I buy this product, there will come a time where I will nead a certain fonction (like frame rate pull down or whatever) and it won't be there and I'll be f!"%d.