simonw wrote: Lee Saxon wrote:
So I use Acrobat, After Effects, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Lightroom, Premiere, & Photoshop. How many months of CC would I get for the price of all that, especially if I wanted to keep everything at the latest version? It\'s a good deal for some people *shrug*
I think the biggest sticking point for most people is that all of these programs create their base files in a proprietary format that collates your data that is held in a freely accessible format into a black hole. While at the end of the day you may be able to export to a format you can open in another application you will never be able to access your editing process to tweak things unless you re-open your master file in Premiere or After Effects.
I have an awful lot of legacy data that I can still access because I still have the original applications to open the master files (dating back over 20 years now).
Under the rental scheme Adobe have adopted once you stop renting you will have no access to your master files.
Cheers, Simon W.
+100 I don\'t think Adobe\'s scheme will be widely adopted until they provide customers a viable solution (one that does not require continuous, non-stop life-long renting) to this major issue. I believe there are enough current users, including professionals, who have thought this through and will not adopt CC until this is changed that Adobe will be forced to either provide a solution or eventually loose a LOT of revenue.
simonw wrote: Lee Saxon wrote:
So I use Acrobat, After Effects, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Lightroom, Premiere, & Photoshop. How many months of CC would I get for the price of all that, especially if I wanted to keep everything at the latest version? It\'s a good deal for some people *shrug*
I think the biggest sticking point for most people is that all of these programs create their base files in a proprietary format that collates your data that is held in a freely accessible format into a black hole. While at the end of the day you may be able to export to a format you can open in another application you will never be able to access your editing process to tweak things unless you re-open your master file in Premiere or After Effects.
I have an awful lot of legacy data that I can still access because I still have the original applications to open the master files (dating back over 20 years now).
Under the rental scheme Adobe have adopted once you stop renting you will have no access to your master files.
Cheers, Simon W.
+100 I don\'t think Adobe\'s scheme will be widely adopted until they provide customers a viable solution (one that does not require continuous, non-stop life-long renting) to this major issue. I believe there are enough current users, including professionals, who have thought this through and will not adopt CC until this is changed.
