Chris Harlan
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Tom, it’s cool. After the X adventure, I will probably never look at a coming product release in the quite same way again.
In the following video montage, which is an extremely accurate portrayal of my expectations prior to the X launch, it is important to note that:
A. I am the whale.
B. Apple is the planet.
C. The improbability odds match exactly with my estimation of X turning out the way it did.
D. The bowl of Petunias represents the entire subset of ex-Autodesk editors who had moved to Apple after that debacle.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCsfHVM5x_I
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “maybe they will, but its a massive adoption risk given the everest scale mountain of positive buzz around this product. Not to mention the insane level of effort from the various teams involved in this release.
“That is my assessment as well. Even if they plan to have us all over there eventually, carrots are a better choice than an axe.
But, of course, there is always that interior unknown. Maybe somebody in power has the deeply-held belief that the C Cloud is the only true path for Adobe’s long term survival, but also believes, rather passionately, that C Cloud, due to heavy startup and operational costs, will collapse or implode unless it is quickly, massively funded. That could cause somebody to pick up an axe. Or at least cause an internal argument about axes.
But, no. My guess is that there will be an upgrade, possibly a bit more expense, and probably not with a path back to the beginning of time. Whatever happens though, I think its a bit rash to pre-bitch about something that doesn’t have any concrete hint of actually happening.
Of course this time of year, a couple of years ago, I was busily typing “No. We only got a preview. We haven’t seen the whole thing. They can’t do away with tracks. I’m sure we’ll all be please with what we get in June.”
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “like I say, if we enter bizarro world and adobe choose to nuke the licensing model covering 80% of their current customers – seriously everyone please read that aloud and consider how likely it sounds – but if they did make that zany leap, I will formally eat some part of a hat.
“Of course, I agree with you completely, though I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that I said something similar before the release of FCPX in relation to choices that Apple would make about current customers. I found that a layer of chili and spicy mustard helped kill the taste of my hat’s poly/cotton blend as it went down.
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[Tom Daigon] “Creative Cloud rental HEAVILY promoted. Perpetual License, not a word mentioned. Rationalization is that product has not been released so prices and terms also arent discussed.
Judge for yourself. Time will tell.
“So that’s all? I’ll go with what I heard in the presentation.
And, I should add that, with all of the large IT department restrictions there are out there, I would find it crazy that Adobe would not provide a standard upgrade path. I think this is all quite overblown.
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[Walter Soyka] “Hopefully we can all have a more informed conversation about this soon when Adobe announces pricing and availability.
“I’m not quite sure I understand where this is all coming from. I heard one of the presenters state very clearly at NAB that there would be both options available going forward. Now, this wouldn’t be the first time I got misinformation from the floor–my fav was being told, a decade+ ago that Avid was quite definitely moving off of the Apple platform for good–but why, exactly is there so much speculation about perpetual licenses being discontinued? What’s the source of this? And why does anyone think there is merit to it?
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “I though avid usually blew up the mouse and set your hand on fire if you carried on like that.
“I often do such things, but then, I’m just a producer/editor and would undoubtedly deserve to be tossed from the club.
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Interesting? A pleasant laugh, yes, but interesting–for me–has to be more, well…. interesting.
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[Michael Hancock] “I know you’re being sarcastic, but I appreciate how customizable the Avid interface is. I mean, if you don’t want buttons – get rid of them:”
Totally agree. Very useful. Very customizable. And, as I’ve been moving back into it, I really get how tablet friendly it is.
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[Steve Connor] “There’s a lot about PPro and FCPX here but Avid only seems to come up when it’s a question of their survival. So I’m interested just in terms of it’s NLE, where can Avid go from here? what do Avid users still need?
“To answer your question, we probably need to redefine what an Avid user is. Every time I went by, the Avid booth was pretty seriously packed, and the per capita of suits with elevated thread count was relatively high. Interplay was really what was on sale. Editors, albeit much cherished, were secondary targets at the show, which is probably the way it should be for NAB. But its also about where Avid’s going. While Adobe is kind of talking about Anywhere, Avid is living and breathing Interplay.
The several improvements to MC 7, as well as the price restructuring, are all welcome, and I’ll definitely upgrade, but the reason to choose or not choose Avid right now isn’t really about new whiz-bang features for individuals, but about stable interoperability in a larger system. And, of course, whether or not its important to you as an individual to be able to interface with one of those systems by knowing and using MC.
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I saw this presentation. It was a good one.