Andy Field
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SSD drives are amazing – just finished an edit on a mac book pro retina with SSD drives internal and external (via thunderbolt) blazing fast renders, transfers…..
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
“This “getting a few bucks” for knocking off the B, Ed & I porn is more than faintly ridiculous.”
Spoken like a true wage slave.
Where does the volcanic anger come from in these forums — You’re a wage slave unlikely to be earning what you deserve by using Adobe software?
Actually own my own production company so I’m – in your colorful description – my own slave.
This software has paid for it’s self a thousand times over with productions ranging from broadcast networks to corporations to film. Again – if you don’t like how adobe is charging – simply walk away and use what you have or find something better.
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
[Dave LaRonde] “I am stunned by your apparently-enthusiastic willingness to let Adobe do a similar thing.”
I don’t like what they’re doing, but I like their products….if there’s an After Effects or Premiere Pro alternative that works as well for us – we’ll jump to it.
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
[Dave LaRonde] “By the way, how does the prospect of being on the hook to Adobe in perpetuity simply to access your own project files appeal to you”
About the same as it feels being on the hook to Verizon, or AT and T or my cable company each month. They are a business, they’ve created a tool and that’s the way they want to sell/rent it. If you don’t like it…vote with your feet and find something better. Astonishing the amount of time busy professionals have to whine about this.
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
🙂 The dinosaurs never knew what hit them either…
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
[Dave LaRonde] “Adobe customers are no longer small one and two-man boutique shops, with the exception of the successful ones — if you run into a tough stretch, well, tough: you lose access to project files representing your hard work.”
That is nonsense — even at 50 dollars a month (i’m getting it for half that price), access to EVERYTHING Adobe makes is not out of reach to the one or two man shops… You pay more each month for your cell phone, cable bill, heat and electric, groceries…heck even your weekly starbucks refills.
You seriously think this will put someone who’s making a living with the software that lets them literally create video magic – out of business?
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
Be careful of that boggy swamp….you are about to become a dinosaur fossil. Not sure what gilded castle you work in, but jack of all trades has become a career survival skill in our neck of the woods.
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Right on, Jim
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
I agree with Kevin on this.
Ideal world – everyone specializes and each specialist is a whiz at what they do.
Today’s world – the market no longer supports it.
Have you seen Post houses shuttering one by one across the country, replaced by smart, able independent contractors who have become “preditors” (producer/editors) It’s how my operation’s survived and thrived in the great recession and have done not just moderate priced, moderate result work, but national award winning pieces from everything from PBS and ABC to fortune 500 companies.
Quick example – had a client who needed 3D Animated logo — said a post house was set to charge him 5K for the work (this was a dozen years ago)
I heard of app called ProAnimator – downloaded a demo – figured it out in an hour — program cost to us 800.00 — we charged client that and the editors time and profit.
We made the cost of the program back in one project – made a profit, paid our editor…..and had a tool that made us a lot of money over the last 10 years.
Had I just been a producer “specialist” I would have never learned this skill and developed another income stream.
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
Getting paid and making a living with the software makes you a professional. Who said anything about making your moms web site. Is there any comment here that isn’t met with a sarcastic or negative response. I was pointing out reality. Not how we’d like things to be.