Subject: Re: [AE] USA and the emerging 'Software Piracy Gap'!!
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From: Brian Higgins <brian.higgins@flavor.tv>
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Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 19:30:28 -0500
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No actually one hires After Effects artists straight out of high school, do t=
hey?

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On Aug 24, 2013, at 6:17 PM, Steve Oakley <steveo@practicali.com> wrote:

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> On Aug 24, 2013, at 4:51 PM, James Culbertson <albion@speakeasy.net> wrote=
:
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>> On Aug 23, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Jim Tierney wrote:
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>>>>> I have to say that I think Adobe's method of business with creative cl=
oud is the best idea so far. Make the purchase price of your product more at=
tainable at a longer stretch profit and more people will be inclined to purc=
hase.
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>> The biggest issue for Adobe that I can see is their educational CC group p=
ricing. I am going to be teaching career and technical education classes in G=
raphic Design and Video Production at our local high school and they cannot a=
fford Adobe CC educational pricing in any of its forms. So we will be teachi=
ng FCPX/Motion instead of Premiere/After Effects. We are still on Adobe CS2 (=
running on Windows 7 in BootCamp because it does not run on OSX 7 and to be c=
ompatible with a Roland Vinyl Cutter) and Photoshop Elements 6. We are not a=
lone by any means.
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> you know the entire point of CC is that everyone stays current, and gets m=
ore frequent updates. the entire we're on CS2/3/4 goes out the window and ev=
eryone is on CC now. in fact I think its a very serious disservice to the st=
udents to be teaching them FCP X / Motion as the primary apps because they j=
ust don't have market share. you'd be better off using FCP7 because that res=
embles most other NLE's. I suppose whats worse is that the students may well=
 have adobe CC on their own laptops. I've seen that a lot. you know those ki=
ds are paying perfectly good money to learn whats current and relevant and n=
ot be using apps that are 6 or 7 years old. why not simply require the stude=
nts to have their own machine with CC ? its quite common these days, not dif=
ferent than buying books for a class.
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