Okay.
For whatever reason, I wasn’t paying attention when I bought CS2.
I somehow failed to realise that Production Studio Pro has nearly all the same things (ex. DTP stuff that I don’t really have much of a use for, but it’s nice having anyway) and more (Premiere, AfterEffects) for… not a lot more money at all.
*breathes deeply*
On the plus side, Creative Suite 3 is launching later this month though I don’t know if that means the next version of Premiere just yet. So I’ll wait til that’s an option before purchasing Production Studio, which means I get CS3 versions of the stuff I actually use — Photoshop & Illustrator — and still have CS2 of non-essentials, like InDesign, GoLive, etc. Acrobat is going to be alright for a while coz I’ve already got Acrobat 8 because of relatively-late acquisition of CS2. Dreamweaver… I don’t particularly care about, though I’ve happily used it for various things.
And yeah, I’m still going to uni and doing all that sorta thing, so it’s cheaper. I’m just vaguely annoyed I didn’t drop $200 more for Production Studio when I could’ve if I’d read a bit more, but it’s done now. Hopefully they’ll launch a new version of that along with CS3 so I can pick it up soon after the end of this month.
One day I might even make a decent amount of money out of this :P My reasoning is that living at home & studying = good time for doing loss-running, skill– and network-building, moderately-expensive-but-just-within-means geeky things.
At the minute I’m not losing money on it, but it’s not something I’d be able to afford to do if I were dependent on regular income for rent, or whatever. Speaking of regularity, John C & I ran job interviews yesterday and decided to get one of the applicants onboard for CYIADA! So now that enters the build phase & we’re actually going to be MakingStuff™ that’ll become more directed and stable — not in a financial sense, but just in a number-of-hours-a-week kinda way. At the minute my hours have fluctuated a bit depending on what I’ve been able to think of/motivated to get done, but that’ll obviously stabilise a lot as I move back to cutting code and actually seeing it develop!
Anyway. Can’t wait.
you? what? how when why what?
im doing a presentation on monday, its a powerpoint, i dont have powepoint, i need to bring my laptop in but put it on the little memory stick how do i get it on my comp if i dont have the real powerpoint?
It’s funny, i’m procrastinating in one of my uni’s media labs pondering over which is better; Premiere or Final Cut Pro. I’m using FCP atm in the media lab, but in my room I use Premiere… it’s a baffling question that I can’t put my finger on. :(
I get a MacBook Pro for my 21st next week and i’m holding back on getting CS2 because I know, assuming they don’t delay it, that CS3 will appear in the next few months and I would rather wait and get something that is optimized for Intel powered Macs. I wonder if Adobe will release an academic version of Creative Studio 3, like they did for 2.
EDIT: i think its fixed.. im using open office presentation which has done a pretty good job at imitating microsoft powerpoint, & i am told i can save it in ppt. form too… yes?
I need it on my comp to hook up to a projector for a presentation, the only thing is it doesn’t fit my whole screen in slideshow mode.. it has like a frame thing which is weird, do you know how to get it off?
Ok, I’m resisting the impulse to promote Apple products and related items, but have a related question for you Joah :P
I’m at a crossroads, I can afford to get either CS3 or Final Cut Studio…what would you do? FCS would potentially get more usage in the short term (as in this year,otherwise Id be using imovie, and wow, that is a crap program, potentially fractionallyl better than windows movie maker…but still — the frustration it causes!) but i’d be running it on a Mac Book Pro…not a mac Pro (drool — esp when Leopard comes out.…if only I had enough money to indulge!) thoughts?
One of mates has said i should get FCS — but he has alterior motives! He wants me to spend a grand on it so he can play with it! and do his assignments on it… sigh…although he has a camera…which i dont…mmm…anyway, thoughts would be appreciated ;)
Considering FCS weighs in at at least $1,100 for an AE license, whilst Adobe CS3 PP is only $800 (also AE), I’d need a pretty compelling reason to fork out the extra $300! Plus CS3 includes Photoshop which is hideously expensive standalone and will invariably be useful at more occasions and more frequently than video editing. In terms of a full suite of tools, I reckon Adobe do it better (but Photoshop is the biggest pull, the video editing/authoring, etc., components are about the same from all less-biased reports).
The price difference just makes me say no to FCS. $300 (minimum difference, less people compete on FC pricing than on Adobe pricing, because of the Apple monopoly crap) is enough for a new scratch disc or three!