James Ewart
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[Walter Soyka] “Did I have to stay on Adobe? Not necessarily — there are other products I could choose to switch to. In fact, there are a few folks on the Creative Cloud Or Not: The Debate forum who are doing just that. They stayed on their perpetual licenses of Creative Suite for a bit and are migrating to other applications.”
Yes but how easy to make that switch? it’s a pain is it not? Especially if you are a bigger company (I’m not) If you have always used Adobe Premiere and know it inside out and are forced down this route then it could be annoying.
Playing my own devil’s advocate for a moment there are plenty of things I pay for monthly so why shouldn’t my editing software be one of them?
But I still think there’s something a bit dark cynical about the practice. They are effectively insuring themselves against their software not being very good for a while. Suddenly they are not living or dying by the quality of their product because they’ve got you by the short and curlies.
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[Walter Soyka] “I just really didn’t get the “un-American” line. It’s the exception rather than the rule that the U.S. government puts itself in the position of arbiter of customer impact of business decisions.”
I apologise if the line caused offence. I have always felt that America stood for free and fair competition. And choice. It’s a good job the subscription model has worked out for you. You pretty much had to get over it though no? if you were already an long time Adobe customer you had to bite the bullet.
Can you imagine if Microsoft did the same thing and made it subscription only? I know one has the option of renting Office, but could they insist and stop selling altogether? I guess it’s just around the corner…
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[Walter Soyka] “Creative Cloud does not push updates. If you wish to stay on an older version, you are free to do so.”
But you have to continue to subscribe no? Or can you keep an old version of Premiere on your computer for a year or two and open an old project and it will open the project even though your subscription has lapsed?
Apologies if I am mistaken I was fairly certain that this was not possible.
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It is odd that one can select the video only option and yet an apparent splice is made in the audio track but I’m still not clear… are those edits actually “there”? Or do they just look like they are there? My workaround for Multicam work is to drop the master mix back into the timeline or simply drag it back out at the end of the edit.
Tricky I guess if you are shortening the song also.
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[Walter Soyka] “I rather like that we are generally free to run our businesses as we see fit, instead of having a business model imposed on us by the government.”
indeed … irrespective of any negative impact it may have on your loyal customers.
I seem to recall in the UK you could not buy Chapman dollies but in the USA this was deemed to be unfair practice (anti trust laws) and they had to sell them as well as rent them. So I thought the same law would apply for Adobe and their software
Clearly not.
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[Bill Davis] “D. Subscription transfers power and standing in the transaction away from the buyer and towards the seller – something many of us are loath to accept. “
The concept to me is more like being taken prisoner. I absolutely hate it. What if I have an old computer that cannot handle the last update one day? I have to throw my computer away? With FCP I can leave Legacy sitting on an old machine for old projects if I want to. In fact I do.
I know little about American law but am surprised your anti trust laws do not make the practice illegal.
It’s a horrible “un American” concept to me.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “If you want to store the in and out markers, you should favorite or keyword them. “
This is a great tip. I’ve only just started using favourites for some reason.
i’m doing a job currently and I have been thinking I don’t know how I would have done it in Legacy. I think logging would have taken me a week or more as opposed to two days.
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And increasingly I wish I could have more than one project/timeline open. Just really useful when playing with different versions and sometimes wanting to remember where the specific changes are. I know I should use Compound Clips more but I am still nervous about them being a strain on resources as in earlier iterations. Is it okay to have and use as many CCs as like with no fear of compromising my system’s processing ability?
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Thanks. Funny but this is the first tim I have felt the need to have separate window for keyword collections … I guess may find a different way but `i am going and froing a lot at the moment.
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I have corrected previous post. I was being stupid. Thanks.