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So After Creative Cloud, Is Anyone Reconsidering FCPX?
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[Shane Ross] “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.”
Yes, you pay Adobe to access your projects/content on their indefinite terms. How is that not a form ownership?
Regardless, I suspect Adobe will eventually adjust the terms once the dust settles.
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[Herb Sevush] “[David Lawrence] “I’ll be keeping my eye on Lightworks…”
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“Hey, it looked great at NAB. I’ll be keeping my eye on it too, even tough I’ll be hanging with MC and Pr.
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[Joe Campanale] “Regardless, I suspect Adobe will eventually adjust the terms once the dust settles.
“It seems to me that they’ve probably spent a lot of time thinking this out. I’d be surprised, albeit pleasantly, if they changed course.
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Joe Campanale: “I’m having a hard time figuring out how, in the long run, consumers are getting more out of this.”
Adobe has created new applications in the last year that I believe are only available in their Cloud ecosystem. I think they will continue to do that so that people using CS5/6 will be drawn into the Cloud eventually when they need those applications. It is an inexpensive subscription if you only wanted one application but eventually you will move to the full subscription rate. Adobe may be doing you a favour in that there will be a lot of things you may try since you are already paying the full subscription.
In the short term it is a bargain if you use several applications. But in the long term I wonder if the value of new features will diminish, as I feel has happened with Photoshop. It doesn’t matter if Adobe introduces 200 new features a year if you don’t need any of them to do your work. But you continue to pay the subscription to continue working. It’s a fairly easy decision to start a subscription but Adobe knows it will be a very difficult decision to end your subscription. In the old model, you just stop upgrading and live happily ever after with whatever CS6 gives you until there is a ‘must have’ feature in CSx that drives another upgrade or single purchase. In the new model, you pay until you retire or expire. Something akin to cable television and cell phones.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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I think the real question is: Do you need Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Media Encoder, Audition, Speed Grade or any of the applications Adobe offers? If so, you’re going to have access to Premiere at no additional cost.
I, for one, can’t live without Photoshop and AE so this doesn’t affect my decision to move to Premiere.
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I have the CS6 Master Collection and there’s a lot in there I never touch, but I just finished 6 hours of billable work in InDesign for a job that just fell in my lap this morning. Wasn’t counting on it, didn’t even have to bid it. So there’s my first year of CC bought and paid for. The price of the Master Collection upgrade paid for itself a long time ago. I expect every year to provide some kind of similar scenario. If I only had Production Premium I’d a had to pass on this gig. It may go in one had and out the other but what Adobe fills the hand that’s left with is pretty impressive.
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