There WILL be a Premiere Pro CS7!!

[Chris Kenny]

[Richard Cardonna] “I dont agree. apple has litigated things we would consider banal. if i was adobe i would try to get that video blocked and launch cs7 a.s.a.p.”

Apple litigated silly things like rounded corners because they were annoyed that Samsung basically lifted their entire concept of what a modern smartphone should be, but you can’t actually protect a ‘concept of what a modern smartphone should be’ with patents. So you go digging around in your patent portfolio for anything that you think might stick, and you go to war with that.

Apple isn’t going to become annoyed with Adobe for lifting Apple’s concept of what a modern NLE should be, because a) legacy FCP wasn’t, in general, doing anything groundbreaking in terms of user interface, etc. in the NLE market and b) Apple doesn’t even think legacy if FCP is what a modern NLE should look like anymore.

Additionally, Apple is unlikely to start a patent fight with another major software company. There would inevitably be a countersuit, and Adobe has a much deeper software patent portfolio than Samsung did. It would get very messy.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

as an aside there chris – how do you find PPro 7 from what you’ve seen?

all X bashing stuff aside – 7 looks pretty seriously good doesn’t it?

I’ve watched about every demo vid, and I genuinely find I’m rather madly keen to get my hands on the thing?

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[Thomas Frank]

Didn’t they say the same thing about boxed software? Just saying don’t believe a liar right?

[Thomas Frank]

So Adobe saying that they coping or just even adding features from FCP “users”. Tells me that they know there NLE was or is nowhere good as FCP was! lol

Adobe yeah

[Joseph W. bourke]

No…it tells us that they were listening to all the people who dumped FCP…

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Steve Connor]

[Joseph W. Bourke] “No…it tells us that they were listening to all the people who dumped FCP..”

More importantly the ones who are waiting to

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Thomas Frank]

Don’t agree I like my theory better.

[Richard Cardonna]

Just talked with Tom Diagon at the ppr forum he said to me that his conversation with adobe guy on the adobe forum was disregarded by hiqher level Adobe staff at NAB. Stating that it has not been dtermined.

Richard

Is this F.U.D.

[Steve Connor]

[Richard Cardonna] “Just talked with Tom Diagon at the ppr forum he said to me that his conversation with adobe guy on the adobe forum was disregarded by hiqher level Adobe staff at NAB. Stating that it has not been dtermined.”

They should really sort this out, they are riding a great PR wave at the moment.

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Aindreas Gallagher]

I think its fair to say that Adobe would not be in a position to do anything other than say that nothing has been formally announced.

I personally think it is incredibly unlikely that Adobe are going to do away with perpetual licenses.

Purchasing software represents a capital investment, and an asset for accounting purposes, with like depreciation and that.
A subscription is not an asset.

Certain businesses may have strong preferences for one or other of those two options – I find it mindbogglingly unlikely that adobe will look to corral 100% of their existing customers, and all the new editors they are about to get, into a subscription service. I think what the guy said to tom is right – they are not in any way discontinuing the current license structure.

But when flat out asked at NAB – I don’t think there is anything an adobe rep can say other than “nothing has been determined, that gut doesn’t speak for the company. we will announce soon.”

Anyway, we’re not going to know for about four weeks, and as Soyka wisely said on the PPro forum – we could spend that entire month freaking out and speaking in tongues like headless chickens, or you know – we could choose not to..

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