[Frank Gothmann]

[Greg Andonian] “I remember you saying a lot of good things about Edius during the early stages of the FCPX debacle. Can it decode ProRes files? That was one of the things that I liked about Lightworks. That and it has AAF import and export. It seemed like moving between Lightworks and Avid (and Premiere CC, at some point) should be pretty easy because of that.
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Edius cuts Prores, DnxHd or any other QT flavour like butter. Actually, it handles pretty much anything and doesn’t bog down. And yes, it has AAF in and out. It also imports FCP 7 xml.

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[Frank Gothmann]

So I assume you also have access to a win machine. Why don’t you also try the other options out there, Edius, Vegas?
When we found X not to our liking we looked at every option out there and all of them are available as trials. Lightworks is something to look into but for us, Edius was the best and most flexible choice.

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[Frank Gothmann]

That functionality’s been there all the time. In AE CS6 you can save your project files as a 5.5 file, simply by choosing that option under “save as”.
Just normal stuff which will also be in CC.

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[Frank Gothmann]

Another “or not”? Wow, this is getting really fun and looney now.
Can we please have Avid, Grassvaley and Sony f**k-up, too, now so we can get all this behind us, close shops and start a soup kitchen?

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[Frank Gothmann]

The project files, yes. An avi or mov or tiff or png or whatever you create will open just fine in any other application.
But yeah, your project files won’t open because the apps that created them won’t open. But… I mean… how else is that supposed to work? You stop paying and the apps still work?
As I have said, I would prefer a one-payment upgrade as well but there is nothing here that is surprising or unusual within the concept of a subscription model.

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[Frank Gothmann]

If the content is sitting on their servers and not your local drive, what else are they supposed to do with it? They’ll give you a grace period to download it and then delete it. Same would apply to your website if you cancel your hosting with them.

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[Frank Gothmann]

Yep, and that’s true. They’ll continue selling CS6 indefinitely and even promised to update it to keep it running on future Mac and Win OS releases.

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[Frank Gothmann]

You do know this post is over a year old, do you?
Seriously, it’s getting a bit bizarre now. Seems people are just roaming the web trying to pick every bit of weirdness, comment, outcry and frenzy they can find. And that comment about the “adobe pr pressure made him do it”… bit silly, no?

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[Frank Gothmann]

The price of CC in Australia is A$ 49.99 and A$ 29.99 if you are upgrading from CS.
In US$ that’s 610/359 per year so it’s pretty much the same price.

I am in Europe, the regular price here is the equivalent of 81 USD and nobody cries because everything here is more expensive compared to US offerings.

I can see, bring forward and accept a lot of reasoning against subscription based software (would prefer “own” myself for other reasons but if the software is what I want and need, I really have better things to do than go ape about it – ie I use it to the benefit of my business); price is certainly not one of them.
Seriously, it’s ridiculous to moan about a 29 dollars per month charge for software that is the core of your business.
Most people spend more on “subscription based” internet porn every month.

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[Frank Gothmann]

On the Mac side, the only choice with a decent amount of customizability left is Encore by Adobe.
If we’re talking feature film level type of authoring for replication with advanced features, scripting etc – forget the Mac, thanks to Apple there is no proper alternative software left on that platform.
Your only viable choices would be on the PC side with Scenarist SD, DVDArchitect and DVDLab.
DVDArchitect is probably the closest at a similar price point to DVDSP, and it runs fine via bootcamp. Very feature rich, also a lot less bugs than Encore.
Scenarist SD was and is the top level authoring app with the most advanced feature set but it’s still expensive and the learning curve is much steeper compared to Encore or Architect.
If you’re also interested in Blu-ray authoring it’s an entirely different story; again, no proper, professional software whatsoever on the Mac platform.
Whatever software you choose – do yourself and your clients a favor and don’t encode with compressor – neither h264 nor mpeg2. Quality is not on par compared with other encoders.

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