It cost me $500 10 years ago to purchase it, it does everything I will ever need and if it does not then I have already Affinity installed on my macs to have a back up solution for that time. Never had their cloud subscription and I am still fine with my old PS CS5 expanded which works great for what I do. I have switched from LR to C1 2 years ago, no way going back to Adobe. I have nothing against Adobe CC, but it doesn't align with my workflow - I don't care about the new bells & whistles, but I do care about performance. And Final Cut Pro X and Affinity Photo are one-time purchases. That’s a total of $545.98 - less than the cost of one year of the Adobe Creative Cloud. Here's all my software spending from the last 5 years. Everything is super fast on my Macbook Pro and it costs me next to nothing. I'm using Capture One Pro + Affinity Photo + Final Cut Pro X. I agree about the bloatware problem - I'm always hearing about performance problems, especially in Lightroom and Premiere. What do you think of Adobe’s software? Are the hardware requirements getting out of control? Is that just the price of admission? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.įunny - I'm about to publish an article on my own site about how I just went Adobe Free after CS5 stopped working for me. It’s the same reason why Canon and Nikon seed themselves into schools around the country, to grab students at the start of their education and hook them into a system early on, a smart play. If young people don’t start on the software, they won’t continue on the software. Younger and new users can’t do that, and so in the long term, this approach will cut out the beginning user base. Any other company engaged in this practice would have their software labeled as “bloatware,” but it seems users are content with spending thousands on upgrading their hardware to work with the software rather than the other way around. Since locking users into its Creative Cloud, it seems that Adobe is less concerned with making its software run well and more concerned with what features it can use for marketing purposes to suck more customers in. And really, if Apple can keep Final Cut Pro X humming (even on 360 video) on a 6-year-old Macbook Air like mine, there’s no reason Adobe can’t find a way, though it doesn’t seem to be able to do so even with key software such as Lightroom either.Īdobe seems to recognize this, releasing “lighter” software such as Adobe Premiere Rush CC, but all this does is further fragment the video editing landscape even within Adobe’s own tent. I used to run Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 on an Acer Ferrari One netbook. Except that it has for a decade, and the creep upwards has only been in the last few years. This is where the commenters chime in and tell me that if I’m serious about editing video, I shouldn’t use a Macbook Air or that video editing doesn’t come cheap. If you take a look at the minimum system requirements for the latest version of Adobe Premiere Pro, you’ll see that it even outpaces a brand-new Macbook Air in some areas. I can’t say the same for Adobe Premiere Pro, and this is what’s baffling. And several years later, on the same Macbook Air I installed it on seven years ago (and paid for once, without a subscription), it still works just as well and mostly as fast. Final Cut Pro X was derided for its interface change, but in reality, it dumped old conventions for a sleek and modernized interface that just worked. Since non-linear editing software became easier to use and more cheaply available, video editing became a tool for the masses, not unlike pen and paper. One of the great changes I’ve seen since I was professionally shooting video for newspapers is the democratization of the tools. While through the universities I’ve worked at, I’ve been able to run all of this software on the latest and greatest machines, my home setups more mirror what mere mortals can afford: a humble Macbook Air and a mid-range PC and iMac. I’ve used everything from Final Cut Pro 7, to Final Cut Pro X, to several iterations of Adobe Premiere Pro. As some background, I’ve been teaching college students to edit video for the better part of a decade.
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