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CNN is going with Adobe CC & Adobe Anywhere
Sounds like CNN provided a lot of feedback to Adobe to get exactly what they were looking for.
https://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/adobe/adobe/cnn-adopts-adobe-anywhere/65517
Last month, CNN announced that it has adopted Adobe Systems’ new collaborative workflow platform, Adobe Anywhere, as the central key to upgrading its entire international newsroom journalism editing and distribution approach. This could foretell a major paradigm shift in the way multi-centric production and delivery systems will be shaped to tackle the challenges of turning the exploding barrage of input formats that digital content creators are facing today into the increasingly complex requirements of large and small delivery platforms—providing content to people, well, anywhere. -
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Gosh, do you think they’ll require CNN to write a seven figure check every month (without fail) in order to keep their entire news gathering system from grinding to a halt?
Or will CNN get special consideration?
Seriously, if they provide a persistent license system for a big user like CNN, one of two things will immediately happen. Either they’ll have to come up with a better story as to why they don’t offer that to the “little people” – or (more likely) they’ll face some script kiddie hacking the system and reverse engineering the CNN style license – and selling cracked versions on the black hat sites.
This would have been a huge feather for Adobe, if they hadn’t done the rental thing.
Now it’s just cause to try to figure out how they can justify the 30 day squeeze on the little folks, while rolling out a different system for the big ones. (if, in fact they do that. Time will tell.)
Grab your popcorn, this should be fun to watch.
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“Apple’s newer Final Cut X release did not have the capabilities we needed to execute a news-oriented workflow,” Koetter explained, “so we went through a rigorous process with Adobe to vet Premiere for our needs and they responded with a very large number of modifications to their NLE, including features in their ‘editing finesse’ category and closed captioning tools. To us, Premiere appears to be the best-in-class craft editing system for our purposes.”
Brian Mulligan
Senior Editor – Autodesk Smoke
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I’ll bet FCP X was a very close 2nd. 🙂 Or, as we like to say in golf, “it was the best of the losers.”
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Ouch.
Tim
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I am no big fan of Adobe or subscription pricing and I don’t have the slightest idea what CNN’s deal with Adobe is but I seriously doubt it has a monthly subscription fee attached to it. But that aside what I read in the text of that release is this: Either they tried to talk to Apple and were ignored, or they discerned there was no point in even trying to talk to Apple. They talked to Adobe and Adobe responded to their concerns.
As for the “little guy?” How much is a subscription to Premiere CC? About $20 a month I think.
Tim
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[Brian Mulligan] ““Apple’s newer Final Cut X release did not have the capabilities we needed to execute a news-oriented workflow,” Koetter explained, “so we went through a rigorous process with Adobe to vet Premiere for our needs and they responded with a very large number of modifications to their NLE, including features in their ‘editing finesse’ category and closed captioning tools. To us, Premiere appears to be the best-in-class craft editing system for our purposes.””
Doesn’t seem like there’s any real surprise here, unless it’s that Avid’s collaborative editing platform lost this one. FCP X doesn’t have an equivalent of Anywhere, which clearly played a major part in their decision. On the other hand, Anywhere, at least in its current form, is basically irrelevant to probably 95% of NLE customers, so the takeaway from this for most people is approximately nil.
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[Bill Davis] “Gosh, do you think they’ll require CNN to write a seven figure check every month (without fail) in order to keep their entire news gathering system from grinding to a halt?”
What are you talking about Bill? You can pay for a year up front. One time annual charge (not to mention the grace period). You can even pay for multiple years up front if you are worried about price creep.
I guess your anti-FUD stance is limited to just FCPX. 😉
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Why is the assumption automatically that it doesn’t conform to some sort of subscription model? Large enterprise software implementations (IBM, Oracle, etc.) are often based on annual professional services and support contracts.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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All I meant was that CNN is not going to get a deal equivalent to what you and I would not matter what the payment structure. My main point was that they either tried to talk to Apple and got nowhere or decided it was pointless to talk to Apple. They talked to Adobe and Adobe apparently listened to what CNN needed and promised to make changes based on those needs.
Tim
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[TImothy Auld] ” they either tried to talk to Apple and got nowhere or decided it was pointless to talk to Apple.””
Apple’s decision to “double down on secrecy” doesn’t appeal to any corporate decision makers except those inside Apple.
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