[Craig Wall]

With all respect Michael, you were conveying the exact same hopeful narrative 3 years ago…and also suggested that the subscription model wouldn’t slow AE’s development.

Years have passed. Nothing has changed.

At this point I think it’s an open question if Adobe will ever commit the development hours necessary to get things modernized. They seemingly have little financial incentive to do so…there are no indications of progress…and no roadmap has been communicated to give us hope.

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[Craig Wall]

For about 3 years I stuck with the last non-subscription version. I despised Adobe for moving to slavescriptions.

I broke down some time back and joined the slaves. :- (

I remember some naive folks who promised Adobe would be *faster* in upgrading the program with the new model. I declared with some others that they wouldn’t be motivated to push the product forward.

it’s been five (?) years since they told us they would get modern multi-processing working and not only have they not finished…in some respects the work has gone backwards.

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[Craig Wall]

Hi Dave…Thanks for the reply! I know you’ve been a reasonable evaluator of AE over a decade or more. I dropped out for awhile but am pushing back into use of the program.

Are you using CC2017? 2014?

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[Craig Wall]

I posted there last night and so far haven’t received any viable solution.

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[Craig Wall]

Todd, my experience with Adobe’s customer support has beat down my hope in humanity far too many times. I know that is far removed from your personal professionalism, but it’s a pervasive reality I’ve seen for over a decade.

I’ll throw out a request for help as wide a net as possible.

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[Craig Wall]

I strongly contend that most people aren’t deeply thinking through all the ramifications of this!

For example let me posit the following absolute reality and nudge you to think about it.
1. You are likely to retire some day.
2. At that time you might strongly consider dropping the $50 (or more) per month for Adobe’s cloud.
3. If you decide the cloud is no longer in the budget…you can kiss goodbye 10, 20, 30 years of your life’s work. You will be locked out. All you will get is: “File cannot be opened.” If that doesn’t make you red-hot mad…I don’t know what might. You will be locked out from even opening your own work!

I would never have dreamt of saying this: But I now have no choice but to consider dumping c4d/AE and moving to Modo/Nuke. Obviously I wouldn’t make a switch like that if there weren’t assurances those companies aren’t likely to pursue the same ill-conceived measure.

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[Craig Wall]

I owned the 5.5 Master Suite. Then when they came out w/6…it was only $29 and they promised additional apps that you couldn’t get with the cloud. I wasn’t happy at the time, but could understand it–as long as it was my choice.

But the idea of being at gun point to pay Adobe $50 every month for the rest of my life…for the priviledge of opening and editing my own files….that’s where I have big problems.

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[Craig Wall]

Ah, OK Dave…I’ll post this over in that thread. Thanx!

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[Craig Wall]

I’m interested in perhaps buying the 4000, but isn’t this card starting to get a little old?

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[Craig Wall]

I spent about 3 hours w/it last night and was very impressed. I have a Mac Pro 2009.

I crashed twice, but I’m not too surprised at that. It’s release 1…and OpenGL is inherently tricky, esp. on Macs.

I’d not hesitate to use it on a project right now….but I’d save like a madman.

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