Remember the old days? :-(

[Michael Krupnick]

Many successful business have shifted away from owner customers to subscription-based revenue desiring renters not licenseed users. It’s true of cars, housing, TV service and high-end software.
And the target is not the old hot-rod tinkerer who loves his wheels, making his into a high-performance version of the stock version…they want amateurs who shoot, wrap the output in a YouTube-ready wrapper, and don’t bug them with suport requests.
Apple’s objective is a new more expensive iPhone (no different underneath but prettier) masquerading as innovation. It’s working, too…placing it as the top-earning company in America. But it is very sad for old hot-rodders like us.
Innovation is now being spread in new industries with far higher goals like energy independence and global environmental sustainability. Meanwhile, I do the best possible with my Intel 8-core MacPro with a multi-OS boot capability and stable versions of PP, Ps, and FCP…and it’s very solid. Yes, today is not as good as yesterday in the non-pro world of the amateur king. But There’s hope for the future and museums like mine still run remarkably smoothly.

[Lou Rosenberg]

Brian,
Wow I really ID w your post. Im only an educational and event videographer working in Manhattan for NYU.
Last Sept I made the switch from FCPv7.02 to PPr CC14. I m running Mountain Lion at work and Mavericks at hm both on Mac Pro towers w new graphics boards of course, enough RAM to do most live efx.

I m considering going back to FCPX for my home freelance work but mainly b/c I m not seeing the support from Adobe I thought I would get.

The interface in PPr seems wonky the tracks expand way too much out of control, and there are more bugs in my software than a bad mattress.

But on the good side the Media Encoder is first rate and beats out the last ver of Compressor I used.
thanks for your post, i dont feel so alone now:)
Lou

[Brian Cooney]

Haha we both need new mattresses!

Telly Award Winning Editor and Motion Gfx Artist with MotionFoundry, Inc., Nashville, TN. Former Head of Post Production, Coca-Cola Studios Atlanta, GA.

[Brian Cooney]

Very well said!

Telly Award Winning Editor and Motion Gfx Artist with MotionFoundry, Inc., Nashville, TN. Former Head of Post Production, Coca-Cola Studios Atlanta, GA.