[Robin S. kurz]

[Bill Davis] “You sign up, pay until you feel you wish to stop. Then STOP. Fair. “

Yeps. Because that model isn’t the least bit comparable to what Adobe and others are pulling off in broad daylight. Since in the case of Lynda etc. you don’t get a permanent block installed into your brain barring you from utilizing everything you’ve learned up that point (at least I hope not). If you’ve forgotten everything or not e.g. downloaded before you stopped paying, your bad. Exact same goes for any course you may have taken in school/collage (which are, at least here, all FREE anyway), no?? Or does someone expect to have an automatic, lifelong subscription to every teacher they ever had, for just having taken a course with them for a semester? Stupid question, right?

Well let’s see… with Adobe et al? You pay, you create, you use… and whammo! The day you decide to stop paying or, for whatever reason, simply CAN’T pay anymore, you are affectively locked out of your own work. Bra-vo! Think about that for just 3 seconds. Everything (at least in most cases, such as PPro, InDesign, Audition etc. etc. etc. etc.) past that moment is beyond your reach, period. If you need access… you effectively pay ransom money for said work to access it.

No idea on what planet or by which logic that actually figures out to being a sensible, let alone reasonable business model. Other than for Adobe of course, duh! Brilliant deal! They’ve got you firmly by the creative maracas! ????????

For anyone else? Mindblowingly stupid in my book. At least for any straight thinking adult and not some “ooooh, all THAT for ‘just 50 bucks‘??!” kid. In which case I don’t give a flying poon how long any feature list is or if it kicks the pants off of everything else on the planet… which it doesn’t. The rudest awakening of them all in the end.

Factually nothing that could ever happen to me with Final Cut Pro X or any other non-Ponzi model of that kind. Simple. And if Apple ever introduced any such model for X, I’d work my way all the way down to Movie Maker if I had to or would simply become a pro-level basket weaver before I bought into such nonsense.

– RK

[Robin S. kurz]

[Walter Soyka] “The point tracker, mask tracker, face tracker, camera tracker, and the warp stabilizer are all available in one place: Ae’s Tracker panel. “

Okay. Then that may have changed since I last checked. Unfortunately that doesn’t change anything about any of the other points and is really is only a tiny side-note overall. Just something I recall irritating me some time back.

– RK

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[Robin S. kurz]

[Chris Harlan] “One of the things I’m enjoying about it, right now, is its ability to work well at non traditional screen ratios. In January, I cut a fast-paced :90 Snapchat sizzle for an Amazon show at 1080X1920 (phone vertical).”

How is that in any way even the least bit unique to PPro?

[Robin S. kurz]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I think it was about 2.5 years before I used it on a deadline driven job, and almost 2 years after that before the whole office switched. It took Apple a few years to get it up and running.”

As far as I’m concerned, as of 10.0.6 (barely ONE YEAR after the initial release btw), I don’t see what “essentials” were missing. Monitoring, multicam, XML exchange (all as of 10.0.3 even, barely six months later) were all there. Sure, the big changes in the library structure of 10.1 and obviously the audio features with 10.3 were a huge step forward, but, at least for me, didn’t make previous versions any less viable for production work per se. The newer versions are just that much more convenient and more of a pleasure to use. ????

– RK

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[Robin S. kurz]

[Tom Sefton] “I’d love to know if there is anything more this can do than just opening the pdf in a window?”

Good question. Was wondering the same. Since, if you can’t e.g. hightlight, edit or maybe copy/paste text from the PDF, what’s the point or notable advantage? If you can, cool.

[Tom Sefton] “I’ve always preferred a printed copy to sit making my own doodles and notes on”

Same here, but to each his own.

– RK

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[Robin S. kurz]

[Chris Harlan] “Its working here in Hollywood pretty well.”

That’s great! Good to hear. (although I have no clue how the location is the least bit relevant, other than maybe for the sake of… oh never mind…)

I’m just saying that I’m unable to say the same for the aforementioned seats nor apparently can the long list of other users, with comments like “No way I am going to upgrade after the most recent AE and Pr fiasco! It added a WEEK to my workflow, and I am still shaken. Trust is broken.”

Also, the vast majority of negative things I read about Final Cut Pro X are along the tired lines of “The magnetic timeline sux, dude!”. Don’t remember when I last read about show-stopping instability or bugs like that. Which is not to say there aren’t any around somewhere, just not in forums and groups I read where actual users are. I.e. outside of company PR channels.

– RK

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[Robin S. kurz]

[Chris Harlan] “Got to say–NOT my experience at all!”

May very well be. We’ll have to take your word for it. Only, strangely enough, I was just recently reading an Adobe post on Facebook announcing one of the updates to PPro and it had near 300 comments. Of those comments I could spot maybe FIVE that were positive through and through scrolling through the list. The rest were nothing but ranting users saying that they’d far prefer Adobe finally rid them of age old bugs, and “Let us know when you guys release a version that’s more than just a glorified beta test…” and the likes. Saying they’d prefer Adobe not keep tacking on features for the sake of features that only a hand full of users even actually need instead.

So I guess, statistically speaking, you may be an anomaly? I know that I’m not, and I speak for more than 50 installed seats on otherwise bare-bones, current gen Macs. No unusual setups, no plugins and a fraction of the stability (and usability) one would hope for.

– RK

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[Robin S. kurz]

[Oliver Peters] “You mean like those in FCPX’s inspector?”

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Oh please. You know better, Oliver. And you clearly must have skipped my post: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/335/93745#93819

To suggest there are any even ever so slight similarities is just antagonistic nonsense, sorry.

But if so, tell me: how many windows, tabs, slider, buttons, pop-up menu clicks and screen space do you need to see the effects, blend mode, transformations, cropping, distortion, stabilization or channel configuration, metadata, project settings etc. etc. etc. all at the same time or with max two clicks in Premiere? And how many keystrokes or mouse-clicks do you need to make every last bit of that disappear completely from the GUI again?? As in nothing more than maybe a button visible at best?

Exactly.

– RK

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[Robin S. kurz]

[Oliver Peters] “I can’t see a script, source clip and timeline in X.”

Then print it out and save yourself a massive waste of space all at the same time! ????

– RK

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[Robin S. kurz]

[Brett Sherman] “I just don’t like the pop-up interface design of things like Neat Video or Color Finale. You have to keep launching the window when moving from clip to clip”

You do not have to keep launching CFP’s window when moving from clip to clip. It stays open i.e. pops up on its own when your on a clip with CFP applied and/or have it selected in the inspector and disappears in the opposite case. Of course assuming you didn’t manually close it’s window yourself at some point.

– RK

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