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Educational v. Professional Version
Hello and Happy Holidays to all,
Obviously there is a huge price difference between an educational (student/teacher) version of AE software v. a professional version, but is an educational version of AE limited at all in functionality? I am in desperate need of a software upgrade. I would be using it for personal learning and projects only for use and display at the school I work at (again not for profit, only for the amusement and wonder of my students!)
Thank you!
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I am pretty sure the only difference in the versions is the fact that you can not upgrade (and a cheep rate) the edu version. also the box will say edu, but that is the only difference I have ever noticed.
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Why not just go to the source.
https://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb402371&sliceId=1
Turns out you can upgrade educational versions, just not at the educational price. IOW, buy educational version of CS3 then when CS4 comes out, you can upgrade to CS4 for the same price anyone that owns CS3.
Some software is missing some of the extras, but as far as I know AECS3 educational and full retail are the same in features and plug-ins.
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I can’t get that link to work….is stuff like Keylight, Color Finesse and Cycore FX included in the Edu verions then?
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when I got 6.5 Edu… all it missed was the Cycore Effects.
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When I last spoke to the powers that be at adobe, all features in CS3 were included in the educational version. There is nothing missing.
As mentioned, upgrading is the only difference.
Aharon Rabinowitz
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Fantastic…so when you do want to upgrade an edu version, you just pay what you would if you were upgrading from a pro version? eg: if it was
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