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Premiere Pro CC it is then?
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Praise the Lord.
Tim
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[Sandeep Sajeev] “Sure. The issue is what happens down the line.
I had to revisit an old Nike spot I cut a couple of years ago last week, and I opened up FCP7 and made the changes the agency needed. This is the type of thing that concerns me.”
I hear you.
A big difference is that fcp7 hasn’t changed much since you created that project a few years ago.
Pr, on the other hand, has changed a bunch in the last few years.
I guess that I have never felt that these projects are truly “mine”. Big companies can and will do what they want in order to stay in business, just like you mentioned.
I can’t really afford to sit around and worry too much.
With fcpx, the program seems to change so much in every realeae, I’m not sure if old projects are going to work on the next point release.
I do understand the concern.
[Sandeep Sajeev] “There’s always XML, but again we’ll have to make the assumption that all that info will translate flawlessly into the newer version of the software. And we saw how well that worked with 7 and X.”
Yes, XML is a decent long term archiving solution, but it won’t be perfect.
Nothing will be, even perpetual licenses.
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[TImothy Auld] “Praise the Lord.
“Give the Art gods their due. At least they’re not asking for heads. Yet.
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[Greg Andonian] “Yes, but what if someone who doesn’t have any CS products starts using Premiere, and then at some point it goes in a direction they don’t like? They’re going to have to keep paying Adobe to access their projects while they look for something else…”
Changing NLE’s is hard to do no matter what the cost.
If you are 100% worried about it, then you don’t have to sign up, but that seems rather extreme.
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[David Lawrence] “It’s about who controls access to your digital property.”
i.e., the money.
Legally, none of this software is your digital property and never really has been, you just pay for the rights to use it.
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[David Lawrence] “[Jeremy Garchow] “It’s not about the money, but it’s about the money.”
It’s not about the money. It’s about who controls access to your digital property.
“I do get this. And yet…
I’m ambivalent. None of us actually owns the software now. We license it. I can see Adobe’s point, as to why to do this. And, I can see value for me in the approach. I wish, for the sake of adoption, it had been less drastic. But maybe in the long run, that’s a good thing too.
I’m not thrilled about it, but I’m much less pissed about it than I thought I would be.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “It’s not about the money, but it’s about the money.”
Naw, it’s also about company focus as many here have long argued. The spin has long been that “Apple doesn’t care about the pro video user any more.”
Not to play the Ancient Roman Auger trying to read the signs of the Gods pleasure or displeasure in the entrails of birds or anything… but I just read through the entire set of press releases issued today by Adobe.
And it did strike me that the term Premier wasn’t even used until about 75% of the way down the copy.
If Apple deserves the rap as an “iDevices” company that sorta also does video – then judged by the emphasis in today’s announcements, it’s fair to think that maybe Adobe sees itself as mostly a “picture and printing” company” that sorta also cares about video. Sure it’s an important part of their business, but it’s doesn’t exactly appear to be seen inside Adobe HQ as equal in importance to Photoshop or even their Digital Type Foundry stuff which got much stronger play early in the releases.
Probably doesn’t mean anything. But it’s one small thing I noticed in the press release mix.
FWIW
Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Legally, none of this software is your digital property and never really has been, you just pay for the rights to use it.”
That’s debatable:
https://www.eff.org/search/site/eula
Also, I’m talking about access to the digital properties I create using the tools I buy from vendors. If I cannot open the files I create without paying the vendor in perpetuity, then I do not control access to my digital property. The vendor does. Unacceptable.
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[Chris Harlan] “Me too. But, I’m not a broken up by all of this as perhaps I should be. Oddly, this reminds me more of the religious practice of tithing, than it does rental.”
lol – it does feel a bit like that. Between the applications and plugins you have to update every year, it is kind of like paying a tithe or a tribute.
Shawn
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Changing NLE’s is hard to do no matter what the cost.
If you are 100% worried about it, then you don’t have to sign up, but that seems rather extreme.”
I was thinking more in terms of a “down-the-road” scenario- like what happens if at some point Premiere takes a sharp turn like FCP did.
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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.”
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