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So After Creative Cloud, Is Anyone Reconsidering FCPX?
I had pretty much made my mind with Premiere, and was extremely excited for “CS7,” but I don’t know how I feel about Adobe owning my content … seems like bad business to undertake, and for what? I’m having a hard time figuring out how, in the long run, consumers are getting more out of this.
Any other Premiere converts flirting with the idea?
Moreover, I hear Gimp is a wonderful program —
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[Joe Campanale] ” but I don’t know how I feel about Adobe owning my content”
What? Where are you getting that? It’s not that they own your content…it’s that you are perpetually renting the software from them. If you want to use it…you pay for it when you use it. Even if 4-6 year later.
Thus far Avid is working for what I do…so I might be sticking with this.
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I’ll be keeping my eye on Lightworks…
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[Joe Campanale] ” I don’t know how I feel about Adobe owning my content …”
Adobe doesn’t own your content. You just need to keep paying them in order to access the software that created it- and therein lies the rub.
With Premiere, this actually won’t be so bad if you have CS5 or CS6, since you can go backwards by exporting to XML. You can also take your project to Avid via AAF. Both of these are more robust in the new version, so that should be helpful.
With the other apps I’m more concerned. I remember a while back I downloaded the 30-day trial of Premiere CS6. I launched it after it expired, and got a message saying I could use it this one last time but won’t be able to after that. If they did something like this with the CC apps when you stop subscribing to it and let you use them 10 times or something like that, I’d feel better about this whole thing.
As far as FCPX goes, I’m not on a Mac right now so I can’t use it. But I’d like to go cross-platform eventually, so I’ll probably get it when I do that, even if it’s just to know more about it.
As for right now, I know I’ll be staying in CS5 land for a good while, and hope to upgrade to CS6 while it’s available. I’ll also be taking a closer look at the Media composer trial that I downloaded the other day than I originally anticipated.
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[Greg Andonian] “I remember a while back I downloaded the 30-day trial of Premiere CS6. I launched it after it expired, and got a message saying I could use it this one last time but won’t be able to after that. If they did something like this with the CC apps when you stop subscribing to it and let you use them 10 times or something like that, I’d feel better about this whole thing.”
What’s the difference between that and having to pay a one-time fee to get a month’s access to it?
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[Gary Huff] “What’s the difference between that and having to pay a one-time fee to get a month’s access to it?”
This way you wouldn’t have to pay for a month just to go in once or twice and do a quick update.
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Just purchased Final Cut Pro X and so far starting to like it. So it is not perfect but at least I don’t have to pay a monthly or annual membership fee to access my projects. If you need the product for a short period of time I could see the cloud as an option but for long term use I don’t care to go that route for reasons obvious.
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Adobe seems to think that they are so great that everyonebwants all there products. they are wrong. most of us just use some of the production premium apps most of thw time.
Richard
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It doesn’t make much difference to me. I’ll continue to keep one foot in Premiere and the other in Media Composer. And, of course FCP 7 for those who still want me to use it.
My biggest concern is that this move will slow or stop the adoption of Premiere in my end of the industry. That would be sad, because I think it is really well suited to replace Legacy. Also, while I like to use Media Composer and Premiere about the same, I think the next version of Premiere will put me squarely in the Premiere camp for my personal use.
Overall, it would just be a bummer if this decision derailed Premiere. But, for me personally; no, it will not make me consider X, and generally, not change my plans at all.
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[Chris Harlan] “Overall, it would just be a bummer if this decision derailed Premiere. But, for me personally; no, it will not make me consider X, and generally, not change my plans at all.”
Pretty much exactly what Chris said.
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[David Lawrence] “I’ll be keeping my eye on Lightworks…”
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Herb Sevush
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