Anyone who has done something often has a right to dispense advice on how they did what they did. Period. You may not like their films, or think their advice poor, but they certainly have the right to share their opinion. Certainly (and unfortunately) you feel the right to share your opinion when you have far less experience and predictably nothing positive to say. Unfortunately, the internet is full of people like yourself.

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It blows me away that people here are complaining about a company that offers a upgrade path for their cameras!

Let's look at the alternative. Buy an Alexa for $50k. Arri comes out with a new 4k Alexa... spend another $50k+.... Now you've spent 50+50=$100k.

OR Red:

Buy a fully equipped Red Dragon for $50k. Red offers a new sensor or body or whatever costing $10k to upgrade. 50+10=$60k. I just saved $40k and still have the latest camera technology.

The only advantage of not being able to upgrade old cameras is that you get to keep them when you buy a completely new one. Which is... ok. But usually people want to use their best camera, not the older model.

Yes, I understand this, and why this software is not usually useful. This is why I recommended to buy Tentacle, an inexpensive timecode generator ($500 USD).

This sounds great. When will it come to Canada and Europe?

I just spent many hours syncing thousands of clips for a feature film in Premiere. The problem with these automated tools is that they assume that all mics recorded relatively the same sound. But when you have 6 lavs and a few boom mics recording different actors and positioned differently, some of them record very different audio, especially compared to any scratch audio from the camera... and automated systems like this don't handle different audio well. So you end up spending the time selecting the files, waiting for it to process, only to have it fail to sync them, and you're forced to sync it manually anyways, costing you extra time. Most of the time, once you get into a rhythm, I can sync audio manually as fast as it would be to select the clips in Premiere and wait for the automated system to do it's thing. These tools have their use, but there are many situations where it fails. I just invested in Tentacle on IndieGogo, a new low-cost timecode system from some guys in Germany. I'm hoping this will prevent me from ever having to worry about syncing video and audio again.