Sandeep Sajeev
Forum Replies Created
-
[Chris Harlan] “You have complete control over this. And, it is program by program. So, if you have a deadline next week, you can wait.”
This is good and sensible.
[Chris Harlan] “I understand the anger and anxiety, but as far as I’m concerned, having watched Premiere develop from 5. to Cloud, I feel very comfortable saying that they have been extremely diligent in listening to both complaints and ideas and have worked quite hard to deliver what I consider to be a very professional set of tools. Just because you don’t like the direction they’ve taken with Cloud–which I understand–is it really fair to accuse them of this kind of hypocrisy?”
I’m not angry or anxious. It is one thing to listen to user feedback on features, most companies do this. There is no doubting the quality of the tool-set. What I don’t buy for a second is the spin that Adobe is any different from the other corporations that provide software for my business. We complain about Apple and how they seem to do whatever they want, drop into the Autodesk Smoke forum on The Area and you’ll find pissed off Smoke Ops accusing Autodesk of throwing them overboard for new money while crippling the old feature-set. There will always be someone who’s disappointed by something. I’m not, in this case anyway, because I was expecting this to happen.
That is why it’s important we keep our options open, and stay fluid, in my opinion, of course.
And when you’ve got Adobe reps disliking posts that are critical, well that just seems bush league to me.
-
It isn’t a monthly subscription globally. It has always been annual here in India and other parts of the world and I doubt that will change.
What that post doesn’t mention at all is that updates usually tend to break something. If this is an automatic process then how many editors are comfortable upgrading in the middle of a job?
And Tech Support according to a poster in the Premiere Pro is an 800 number in India. I live and work here now, and have actual experience with this…Good luck with that. Not everyone can call Adobe/Blackmagic/Autodesk and speak to someone they have a personal relationship with.
I like the potential offered by Mission Control – but the site is short on specifics at the moment. If it has Basecamp like functionality then that is proper innovation.
[Walter] I guess all of us running businesses should just stop being so greedy, invoicing our clients every month after we complete jobs.
In my market, we bill 50% upfront and the balance is due 30 days after delivery. This is the norm for all agency driven work. I’d be laughed out of the room if I walked in and said hey put me on a retainer so I can count on a steady cash flow.
It’ll also be interesting to see just how innovative a company with a massive subscriber base locked into it’s ecosystem continues to be. There are plenty of examples of this going bad. What makes Adobe different? The fact that a couple of guys who work there pop on forums and social media telling us that they’re listening to Pro-users? Is that all it takes?
For the longest time I was stuck with my cell phone service provider, as changing providers meant a change in numbers. Once the law dropped that you could change providers and keep your existing number, there was a dramatic improvement on the part of the provider. So there are benefits to not being locked into something.
Or CC could be great, and this is all just noise. We’ll know once the first problems arise.
Also a quick note Re: Autodesk switching over to this model – they have enough problems trying to provide consistent performance as it is. It would be foolish of them to even consider this type of a model until they sort out all the issues that those who’ve purchased Smoke 2013 are having with basic things like export.
Apple doesn’t need a monthly check from us – they’ve been giving away updates for free, and guess what, the software has improved significantly. Why? Because people were pissed and had a choice.
-
Sure. The issue is what happens down the line.
I had to revisit an old Nike spot I cut a couple of years ago last week, and I opened up FCP7 and made the changes the agency needed. This is the type of thing that concerns me.
There’s always XML, but again we’ll have to make the assumption that all that info will translate flawlessly into the newer version of the software. And we saw how well that worked with 7 and X.
-
But it’s not Jeremy. Look at this way, when Apple launched X and EOL’d 7, my copy of 7 still worked.
-
Richard,
In my post in the Danger Will Robinson Thread, I was just pointing out the ground realities here in Mumbai.
I am against piracy of any kind.
Best,
Sandeep. -
Did you read the rest of my post? Or did you just decide to rant based on the first sentence?
And your blanket assumption that people who don’t buy into X are afraid of change and are unable to adapt is ridiculous. Sometimes things just aren’t a right fit.
But if ‘buying into some grand vision’ makes you feel special, then by all means continue trying to diminish the rest of us.
-
When Apple made their “big change” everyone trashed them mercilessly – in large part IMO, because very few people understood the full breadth of what they saw coming and how they needed to react to changes in order to remain relevant in a changing business landscape.
The reason people trashed them mercilessly was because FCPX on release was a substandard product for most editors who were using FCP 7. You keep harping on this whole vision thing, but that’s just pretentious. It has come a long way since, and I love it now, but I thought it was awful when I first got it.
As for Adobe’s explanation, they’ve given it. And it’s about their bottom line, as it was always going to be. All that BS of we’re listening and working on Use Case scenarios was just that…I never expected them to follow through. They were always going down this route.
Ultimately, in this game, someone is going to screw you over. It’s never about you/me/or anyone else – it’s always about what’s best for the corp. Make your peace with that, and you’ll never feel let down.
-
This would be a good time for Apple to put out some info on what’s coming in 10.1.
-
So much for ‘Adobe listens’.