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Is it worth it? (Video Collection Premium)
Right now I’m running a fairly hodgepodge system of older versions of software for my freelance:
AE Pro 6.5
Photoshop 6
Premiere (whatever version was before Pro)
Illustrator 9The opportunity has arisen that I’m going to have a project that will pay around $1400. The catch, I need adobe encore to make the DVDs for it. I use all the latest and greatest at work, oddly enough though I really don’t use all the new features of the CS2 line of software or even use a few of the features that gives you a good reason to upgrade to AE 7.
The question is, is it worth the $1200 upgrade to get everything current, thusly eating up most of the revenue from the project or should I just fork out and upgrade Photoshop, AE, and buy Encore.
I’m trying to come up with a good arguement for this so I can inform my wife. (the computer upgrade speech will come later when I somehow convince her that a Mac Pro would be grand and we can run all my PC software and we can run Mac software too).
Thanks in advance.
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7 Replies
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Basic answer : Will you keep doing alot of freelance? If yes, eat up the fees, make your 200$ and revel in the fact that you’re now up to date and in the clear.
If this is something you do on the side every other month or so, outsource the project to someone else for less. Give that guy 600$ or something and collect the profit.
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One word, INTEGRATION. If you buy the apps seperatly then you won’t get the dynamic link…. Dynamic link allows you to take clips from one app to the other without rendering, for me, that feature alone was worth the upgrade.
Mark
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Dynamic link changes your whole perspective on workflow.
You save a ton of intermediate steps that suck up huge amounts of drive space, image degradation, and 80% of your brain power. -
Well, sounds like you should take the plunge and do the upgrade to Premium suite. I’m not using Dynamic Link that much (we still use mainly Scenarist to do our DVDs, even the mundane ones without fancies), but the rare occasions when I do it is just great. It’s really nice to be able to adjust your menues down to the sub-pixel, have the comp update in Encore and on top of that work with already rendered RAM previews.
Other than that your software seems really old (no offence) and even if you don’t use the newer features, it might be a good idea to update. It’s quite predictable that there will be new versions of the CS tools in foreseeable time as well as the video apps and it won’t get easier to adapt to new workflows, new interfaces etc. the larger the “version gap” becomes.
In your case I also think you can greatly benefit e.g. from the improved integration between AE and Premiere Pro by ways of importing/ exporting/ copy&pasting clips and timelines and on top of that you gain a lot of options when it comes to transcoding your assets for DVD authoring (there are occasions when Encore just acts up, but one of the programs is always bound to give you usable output, if you know what I mean).
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
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Make sure you call the adobe store. i did something similar and saved a bunch because all my old stuff qualified for an upgrade at a lower cost.
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I took the plunge and got the upgrade to the premium collection professional using my copy of photoshop. Of course this now means I have 2 licenses of Adobe After Effects Pro (allbeit one is version 6.5 and one is 7.0). Anyone know if you can sell an old license like that? Or does Adobe pretty much frown on that?
Now I’m looking at the mailbox eagerly anticipating the box 🙂
-Rob
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Call Adobe customer service. They may still have some sort of license transfer scheme.
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