Mathieu Ghekiere
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[Andrew Kimery] “Of course a bit of irony is people loving Apple and Blackmagic’s business model while condemning Adobe’s even though the inexpensive-software-that-requires-our-hardware approach is helping to drive down software prices, which makes it harder for software companies to make money, which is part of the reason we are seeing more software companies explore other business models such as subscriptions, freemium and ad supported.”
Well, but I still think Adobe’s price for the CS6 suite was fair (in the US at least… for us in Europe it would be 50 percent more expensive, even when doing a download from a US server… which was a big rip-off also – and Adobe’s explanation didn’t got much further than “well people pay it in that market” … like they had a choice). I consider FCPX to be dirt cheap, and if Apple or Adobe launches a great suite tomorrow for 1000 euros again, I could buy it like I bought Final Cut Studio in the past. I don’t need a professional suite to be less then 500 euros if I think it’s a good business investment. But only subscription makes the program at least 600 euros a year, as long as you want to use it. That’s different then buying a 1500 euro suite that you can use for 5 years for instance.
I agree, if everyone starts doing subscription, it gets to be very expensive to use a computer. For smaller and bigger businesses it’s doable. For a freelancer, much less so.
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I also made my computers Adobe-free.
At the job where I freelance, we have CC subscriptions, mainly for Photoshop because for the rest we also work with FCPX-Motion-Compressor, and it works well.
CS5.5 didn’t work very fast on newer operating systems, which was the last version I had personally. And all my editing has been in FCPX anyway. So the only things I really miss was Photoshop, but I now use Pixelmator and don’t really miss Photoshop. Maybe looking an eye out for Affinity Photo. I never used After Effects, so I didn’t miss any of that.
Audition is a great program for which Apple doesn’t have a substitute anymore, and I would like it if they made another Soundtrack Pro X, or made more stuff in Logic geared towards filmmakers as well.But I *really* don’t like the subscription model. For moderate businesses it’s okay to have a subscription but for my personal work, I don’t want it. I like it as an option, not as the only choice. If Apple falls to far behind with FCPX one day, and Adobe is making a killing, I will switch, but it will be relunctantly. And I still love FCPX and it’s model, but sometimes I would like to have the higher pace of developing that Adobe has. Their development team seems to be doing a good job.
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[Marcus Samuel-Gaskin] “What really grinds my gears is that this is like, what, the third or fourth iteration of the OS since the introduction of AV Foundation and the official Quicktime application still does not have any Pro features. I find this inexcusable this far down the road. “
Agreed. When Quicktime X was first released, everyone thought a lot of those features would come after a couple of months. Quicktime X was introduced in Snow Leopard (!!!) and it’s still pretty much the same application. It still doesn’t show timecode of a file, it still doesn’t even have preferences, etc. …
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[Oliver Peters] “so Metal may or may not be that big of a factor.”
The demo of both Illustrator and AE on WWDC was *very* impressive in how much faster and smoother it seemed though.
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Coremelt and Digital Rebellion should also be fine.
And plug-ins based on Motion should also be pretty safe to go. -
David,
about not being able to request a Desktop Site: are you sure it’s not WORKING for you? I’m just mentioning, because the feature got MOVED. I think it’s now under the Share icon, and one of the actions underneath. Hope it helps,
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in IOS 9 (as well as in El Capitan when it will be released) the system font is changed from Helvetica Neue to the Apple-developed San Francisco Font.
Sometimes they look a bit like each other, in some cases they differ.
You can see it very quickly in numbers.https://appleapple.top/ios-9-vs-ios-8-a-comparison-of-san-francisco-and-fonts-helvetica-neue/
https://www.wired.com/2015/06/apple-abandoned-worlds-beloved-typeface/
https://mashable.com/2015/09/16/apple-ios-9-font/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#KenZJfvmpGkS
https://mashable.com/2015/09/16/ios-9-font-change/#ca82umPfZqko
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haha,
when I first saw it in screenshots, I hated it. I thought it really looked Windowsy, for a lack of a better word.
Now that I have it on my iPhone 4S and my iPad Air, I’m starting to warm up to it. I still think the Compact version (that they use for the Watch and some small areas in iOS 9) looks really ugly, but the regular version is ‘okay’. Esthetically, I still love Helvetica Neue a lot more, but I get that readability on small heights can be better with the new font.BTW, I’m very happy with IOS 9, even on my iPhone 4S, the lowest supported hardware, it seems to work better and with more battery life then iOS 8.
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Oliver,
not only Compressor and Quicktime 7 can handle Image Sequences. Motion as well. You can import footage as image sequences.
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Yeah, I’ve thought about that too. On the other hand, I would *think* that in a project you probably mostly don’t have a LOT of stuff with an alpha channel (mostly some small graphical stuff) and it wouldn’t be a problem for *most* projects to have the software make Prores 4444 for those clips.