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Apple Offers Discounts to Adobe Premiere Users
JHromadka writes "Apple is responding to Adobe dropping future Premiere releases with great deals on Final Cut products. You can trade in Premiere for a free copy of FC Express, or $500 off FC Pro."
So, I'm thinking about doing the trade-in deal, as opposed to the $500 upgrade deal. What could I do in Premiere that I couldn't do in Final Cut Express? The marketing stuff doesn't allude to anything...
I just noticed this is also available to windows users of Premiere. Might be enough to switch to a 2x2 G5 and FCP.... (okay, I just really want a G5.. mmm)
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Too bad this can't be used in conjunction with an educational discount. Apple's student prices are pretty sweet when it comes to software (the hardware's still a little high, though. It's like the reverse of the razor model).
Adobe: "We'd give you the new version of Premiere, but we decided not to write it for you. Sorry."
Apple: "We'd give you a cut of the business we're about to take from you on our platform, but we decided not to write the check. Sorry."
Yeah, I know, probably not like that, but still, it was sorta funny.
Mikey-San
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This is a pretty sweet deal when you consider that you can get cheapo versions of premiere on ebay. there weren't any restrictions on version number that I could see from the fine print. just no academic or similarly discounted versions.
While this page claims that the FCE and FCP offers are "available worldwide", it also says that deliveries "must be made to addresses within the 50 United States or the District of Columbia", and there's no sign of the offer on Apple's UK site. What gives?
Im glad Apple did this as its exactly what I asked our rep for as soon as the Adobe announcement was made.
Adobe has decided that not only can it not compete with a better product (its competing when its not bundled for free with the OS), but that it wants to push a much more serious rival's media software (WMP).
FCP is a great reason to own a Mac, and offering free or inexpensive cross grades to FCP from Premiere on both platforms is exactly what Apple needs to do to stay competitive.
The media technologies are actually the key to the Premiere/FCP battle. Keeping MPEG4 at the front of the game is extremely important to all of us who are interested in seeing open media technologiers (and who don't want another reason to be stuck on Windows). Having Adobe push Microsoft's solution (not saying you can't do anything else - but notice the prominent mention of MS technologies in their PR release for Premiere) is bad for all of us.
My point? Apple competing hard for open media standards via products like FCP is great for those people who will never use either piece of software.
Blody hell... when are American companies going to stop treat us Europeans as second class world citizens???
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Oh, well... one day I will have my revenge... mua ha ha ha ha.
"Civis Europaeus sum!"
TheMacMind and MacCentral also has various information updates covering the Creative Pro Expo and Conference if anyone is interested.
Will Final Cut (preferably Express) allow me to burn existing MPEG-2s to DVD? I can export MPEG-2 files from my ReplayTV but can't seem to burn them onto my SuperDrive without first converting them to DV and then using iDVD.
Ceri
Final Cut doesn't do any DVD burning (that I'm aware of, anyway)--that is what DVD Studio Pro is for. So if what you want can be done, it will probably be done with DVD Studio Pro.
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If you look at the mail in form, there's fine print at the bottom. The 'Trade In, Trade Up' deal where you mail in your Premiere CD for a free Final Cut Express disk does not mention Academic versions at all -- just the Premiere LE.
Only the 'Your Checks in the Mail' offer mentions Academic software. Sounds like you can't buy FC Pro Academic ($500) and get the $500 rebate. But it seems that you can trade your Academic Premeire disk for FC Express for free!
I'm licking my stamps now!
Dear Apple:
I bought an Apple computer because of its native support for teledildonics. I bought a USB FUFME and MacOS immediately recognized it and installed drivers instantly! As a gay Catholic priest who often can't be at the altar all the time, you can understand how the ability to have sex with children whilst on the airplane with my Powerbook and wireless internet service is a lifesaver.
I just have a single question, will Apple be releasing a firewire version of the FUFME anytime soon?
With much gayness,
Father Michael "Arminass" Sims
# You can't use 5-1/4" floppy disks.
# You can't go shopping with your friends for a Sound Blaster board because Macs don't need one.
# Your 200 MHz 604e Mac does integer calculation equivalent to a 362 MHz Pentium Pro, but you can only brag about 200MHz.
# Networking a Mac is not an impressive feat.
# Macs don't come in black, and we all know black cabinets make computers faster and louder.
# You have to add a system extension to make Mac menus stay down like Windows. We like pokey menus because it's too hard to hold that heavy mouse button down while we read.
# And the Mac mouse is too slow. We want our cursor to fly wildly off the screen when we twitch our wrist because hyper cursors make our PCs look faster.
# You just plug Macs in and they work. Where's the challenge in that?
# When you add stuff, you just plug them in and they work, too. Again, no challenge.
# Your clients and teachers know about # 2 and 3, so they expect Mac users to deliver results, not excuses!
Try http://www.apple.com/finalcutexpress/comparison.ht ml if you want a direct comparison of Final Cut Express and Premiere.
The most important thing is that Final Cut is a much better designed application. There are about 50 different ways to do anything, it's extremely flexible, and the keyboard shortcuts make it easy to get work done.
As I remember, Premiere has better titling, but Final Cut has an extensive colour correction system that I believe is included in FCE.
But the most important thing is simply a far superior design and user interface, something even Premiere's defender (see his message) will admit.
Hope that helps.
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Do you just have to mail them the cd, or the license too? Apple could make a killing reselling all of those premiere licenses they they got basically for free.
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I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Linux fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of an Athlon64 (an XP-3000+) running SuSE for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 500 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my eMac running Mac OS X 10.3, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this PC, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, KDE will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even pico is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Linux distros, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Linux distro that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Linuxhead's insistence of open-source efficiency. My eMac 1Ghz with 512 megs of ram runs faster than this 3000 mhz(?) machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that a Linux PC is a superior machine.
Linuxheads, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a GNU/Linux system over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
I hope they put them all together in a huge microwave.
Zzzap!
"I tend to think of OS X as Linux with QA and Taste", James Gosling, creator of Java
Well, according to Andrew Webb on MacInTouch, Apple says that
(emphasis mine)So it seems that Adobe is cooperating with Apple on this one (maybe by assuring them that Adobe customers won't be in violation of their Premiere licenses by just sending the media to Apple).