Creative Cloud Q&A

[Jim Scott]

“We are intending to have the command to save back to CS6 in the next several versions of After Effects.”

Thanks for further clarification Steve.

[Derek Andonian]

[Todd Kopriva] Yes, it would work. You could subscribe to just After Effects and Premiere Pro for this purpose.

I checked the membership plans, and there’s no plan available that would let you subscribe to “Just Premiere and After Effects”. There’s the single-app plan, and then there’s the all-apps plans.

Unless you’re saying you can do two individual subscriptions at the same time, and suggesting that this could be done in a situation like the one I described. But if you do the single-app twice, just for one month, that’s going to be 30 dollars for each app- so 60 dollars just to make a few changes. I don’t like the sound of that one bit.

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“Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Jason Jantzen]

I think Todd is alluding to what is coming, not what’s available now.

I’d love to see an a la carte kind of deal. Or even a “video cloud”.

Jason Jantzen
vimeo.com/jasonj

[Todd Kopriva]

No, Greg understood me correctly.

If I were in the position of needing to do work with the software but I had let my subscription lapse, I’d invoice the client for the subscription for that month, just like I would invoice for any other resource that I needed to do the work.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Jason Jantzen]

I took some surveys a few months back that asked if I would be interested in something like a “video cloud membership” as well as a “design” and other variations. I thought it sounded like a great idea. So no future plans for discounted cloud plans where you choose what software you’d like to use instead of the whole thing?

Jason Jantzen
vimeo.com/jasonj

[Todd Kopriva]

> I took some surveys a few months back that asked if I would be interested in something like a “video cloud membership” as well as a “design” and other variations. I thought it sounded like a great idea. So no future plans for discounted cloud plans where you choose what software you’d like to use instead of the whole thing?

Such a thing may happen in the future. It is not part of the current offerings.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Ridley Walker]

[Steve Forde] “What I will not do is subscribe to idle speculation, fear mongering or a general desire for scandal. I will just simply say that we feel very strongly that what we are doing is the right move for both Adobe and our customers – end stop.
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I’m interested in knowing whether the concerns raised on the MacPerformance Guide blog are legitimate – or is this some of the fear mongering you refer to?

I have no desire to spread rumours or falsehoods regarding CC and the subscription plan.

I understand that Adobe would not have made this change if it did not consider it the appropriate business decision. I don’t think the sky is falling but would like to understand all the implications of subscribing to the CC.

[Todd Kopriva]

Ridley, could you ask a specific question so that we know what we’re responding to?

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Ridley Walker]

[Todd Kopriva] “Ridley, could you ask a specific question so that we know what we’re responding to?
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The MacPerformance Guide blog raises many concerns about the legal agreement. He provides his own interpretation.

https://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2013/20130508_1a-Adobe-legal-agreement.htm

According to his interpretation of the agreement (ie not mine) Adobe can refuse service for any reason it deems fit with no legal recourse on the part of the subscriber, can raise the cost of subscription at any time without notice, can use any work you store in the cloud for its own advertising purposes without compensation to the creator and much more. Is this correct?

[Erik Lindahl]

I’ve got a few pretty straight forward questions:

1. Creative Cloud allows you to use two installations on two different computers per license concurrently. A question here though is with a Creative Cloud for Teams license if you are allowed the above but for two different individuals on two different computers with-in the team?

2. The pricing seems quite off in Sweden. In th US the price for a team licens is $840 per year, in Sweden roughly $1200 per year. Why the insane premium over here? Doesn’t make any sense to me.

3. Is it possible to download a .dmg of each install? This would be great for people with random acess to Internet or slow connectivity.