Comments on: PRODUCER – Maker Machina Tested – First Look at the All-In-One Production Software https://www.cined.com/producer-maker-machina-tested-first-look-at-the-all-in-one-production-software/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:21:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 By: Cine D: "PRODUCER – Maker Machina Tested – First Look at the All-In-One Production Software" - Producer https://www.cined.com/producer-maker-machina-tested-first-look-at-the-all-in-one-production-software/#comment-95124 Wed, 06 Mar 2024 12:41:11 +0000 https://www.cined.com/?p=324925#comment-95124 […] […]

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By: Patrick Lambertz https://www.cined.com/producer-maker-machina-tested-first-look-at-the-all-in-one-production-software/#comment-95121 Wed, 06 Mar 2024 11:45:29 +0000 https://www.cined.com/?p=324925#comment-95121 In reply to Oliver Price.

Hi Oliver, unfortunately not yet. We plan to build a simple budget calculator some time in the future, but there are plenty of complex tools out there and many different budgeting styles. That’s why we decided to not tackle this topic right now (Choose your battles, right? ;)

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By: Patrick Lambertz https://www.cined.com/producer-maker-machina-tested-first-look-at-the-all-in-one-production-software/#comment-95120 Wed, 06 Mar 2024 11:40:39 +0000 https://www.cined.com/?p=324925#comment-95120 In reply to Adam.

Hi Adam, too bad we could not convince you about our service. We are building this tool from our hearts as filmmaker ourselves, who have been looking for ages for a solution for our production pains. Our goal is to make something available for those people who don’t have the time, knowledge or passion to learn setting up databases and servers on their own, as they need to focus on creativity and producing. Your insinuation that we do this for pure greed feels a bit painful, especially as our goal is to offer something of value for the filmmaker community and we are very passionate about building and improving our tool. PRODUCER is just an offer amongst others and nobody is forced to use it, so everybody is free to choose whatever fits your needs best. If you have anything in the future that you want to contribute, where we can improve our product please feel free to drop me a line on support@the-producer.io All the best and have a great day! Patrick

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By: Adam https://www.cined.com/producer-maker-machina-tested-first-look-at-the-all-in-one-production-software/#comment-94814 Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:21:19 +0000 https://www.cined.com/?p=324925#comment-94814 Another subscription service software. You don’t own the software. You’re at the wims of the company deciding to institute changes that could hurt your project. You have arbitrary limitations that make the software sort of useless at its base ‘free’ layer. You need to store your sensitive data on THEIR servers. Browser based. So much negatives for this, that I really don’t see the positives being worth this. There are plenty of other software out there that does 90% of this for much cheaper costs. Airtable and Notion, for example, are Database browser based subscription programs that do the exact same thing (more or less) as this, for a cheaper cost, that is, if you again, want to rely on storing your data on other servers, not having great backup options besides manually doing it yourself, and tons of other limitations. I made an account and tried the ‘software’. It is a database software that they’ve customized for the film industry that. You can find most of the templates they’ve used on airtable or notion to make the same thing for yourself (with a few minor features missing) for much cheaper. Another option is to learn to use database software, find a free to use database software, and build your own server for this pretty cheaply.

I just don’t understand why people keep falling for this stuff. If they had came out with this software, that you could download onto your computer, and run from your own server, or off of google drive, onedrive, icloud or whatever, where you pay one upfront price, then they’d have a hit on their hands that actually shows you care about your customers. Subscription software, and uninspired cash grabs like these, just reek of anti-consumerism.

I’m sure plenty wont agree with me, and I’m sure you’re happy paying a million subscription fee’s and that’s great. That is what these companies bank on.

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By: Oliver Price https://www.cined.com/producer-maker-machina-tested-first-look-at-the-all-in-one-production-software/#comment-94664 Wed, 07 Feb 2024 16:17:53 +0000 https://www.cined.com/?p=324925#comment-94664 Is there a budget calculator built-in? I absolutely despise using Google sheets for this.

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By: Patrick Lambertz https://www.cined.com/producer-maker-machina-tested-first-look-at-the-all-in-one-production-software/#comment-94644 Tue, 06 Feb 2024 13:13:07 +0000 https://www.cined.com/?p=324925#comment-94644 In reply to Justus Tyrone Gooden.

Love to see your content being “Made with PRODUCER” ;)

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By: Xaver Walser https://www.cined.com/producer-maker-machina-tested-first-look-at-the-all-in-one-production-software/#comment-94642 Tue, 06 Feb 2024 12:40:12 +0000 https://www.cined.com/?p=324925#comment-94642 In reply to Justus Tyrone Gooden.

thank you for the support Justus.

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By: Justus Tyrone Gooden https://www.cined.com/producer-maker-machina-tested-first-look-at-the-all-in-one-production-software/#comment-94588 Sun, 04 Feb 2024 09:42:36 +0000 https://www.cined.com/?p=324925#comment-94588 The software is amazing very far reaching can be used for many different projects, other than commercials and films. And just over an hour outlined three different projects, a film that I’m working on some content for YouTube and Instagram. This is truly an amazing product putting everything right at your fingertips, it can be used for so many different things. Wow.

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