For a number of reasons, I am leaving Adobe behind in all my production and teaching work. I’m also going to stop telling people that Premiere is better than Final Cut X…
Why the change of heart? Mainly, I can’t recommend the monopolistic pricing practice of Adobe’s creative cloud. And whatever the politics, it’s just too expensive for rentware. (Also check out the frightening TERMS OF SERVICE you are agreeing to..)
There’s a terrible feeling in my gut when I think how dangerous it is for a business, artist or student to rely on subscription-based software.
Because if you stop paying for an Adobe subscription, you lose all your work. Not the final products, of course; the outputs stay put and stay exactly how they were when you finished them. But the project files, the meat and potatoes, are locked into Adobe and are no longer usable when your subscription expires. You could spend something like $75 for a 1-month subscription to Adobe every time you want to look at an old project; or you could just find other software with a perpetual license, i.e software that you buy outright. I’ll recommend a better set of alternatives in another post, and link it here later.