Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Apple Creator Studio

apple.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

351–360 of 461 posts

Re: Apple Creator Studio

#351

Post by chrisandchris »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #209
Plasmoid2000ad wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes - but perpetual purchases have an interesting gotcha that Microsoft didn't realise at first. To encourage subscription over perpetual, ongoing or evergreen updates are limited to subscription version. Office 2024 has every feature that was added since Office 2021 to the subscription version - while a chunk of loyal customers are unaware of them. Back when Google was competing hard with Google Suite, a big percept…

So far from what I can tell, Final Cut Pro has gotten perpetual updates. Since you can only buy it via the Mac App Store, ther can’t do upgrade pricing.

They could - and some of the 3rd party vendors did: There is a 1Password 7 and a 1Password 8. There was also a Things 1/2, which is now a Things 3. it usually works by creating a new app, and not updating the old one anymore.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

#352

Post by movedx »

jwr wrote: post #276

After Apple suddenly discontinued Aperture, which left users like me with huge complex photo archives hanging, I will never trust any professional software tool from Apple again. It is a disaster that I still haven't fully recovered from. I've learned my lesson — all my archives will now be maintained by me, in file structures, with metadata in text files.

Please don’t take this as me saying you were wrong to ever trust Apple, however the best way to organise any data is usually just files on a disk.

That’s becoming a recurring theme for me and even some of my corporate clients now. Confluence, for example, is out the window for secure documentation around sensitive environments and Word Docs in One Drive are back in. It’s surprisingly refreshing and gets the job done way better.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

#353

Post by lemonlime227 »

lemonlime227 wrote: post #59

The individual one time purchase versions are still available for all the apps. Final Cut, Logic, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage are offered in a bundle for education by Apple as a $199.99 one time purchase (no education status is verified) [1]. Pixelmator Pro is available as a one time purchase as well for $49.99 [2]. Not included in the Creator Studio is the Lightroom alternative Photomator, which is available a…

Additional info: Final Cut Pro is going to keep getting updates, but certain features (presumably AI related) are not going to be included with the one time purchase and are gated to the subscription [1].

[1]: https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/#:~:text=A%20one%2Dtime%...

Re: Apple Creator Studio

#355

Post by timeon »

krm01 wrote: post #283

It’s actually a pretty big deal. I always wondered why they didnt compete with Adobe. Even when Steve Jobs was still around. 90%+ of Adobe users are on Macs. Why though isn’t such a significant announcement on the Apple.com homepage?

At least Acrobat reader is not relevant on macOS.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

#356

Post by josephg »

bredren wrote: post #305
weinzierl wrote: post #296

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is true, but it is also true that FinalCut lost big time against DaVinci for all semi-professional users which are exactly FinalCut's main target group. I'd argue that it is very likely that Final Cut X+1 was Apple's plan. It just did not pan out and they were busy with other things. Now they made the first step correcting that (or cutting the losses, depending how you want to see it).

I had thought a main problem for professional video editors w FC had to do with video editor UX philosophy. Something difficult to pivot away from. I’m hand waving there because I’m not a pro but my neighbor is and I don’t recall the details. But I’m curious how you see FC also lost in semi pro to Davinci specifically.

Davinci Resolve is free. At least, for the non studio version. (There’s a few studio only features, but almost everything is available in the free version of resolve). And a lot of people want to learn resolve anyway for color grading. Why not just edit in resolve too? Resolve studio is also quite cheap, given you buy it once and own it forever. Including updates.

I spent last week helping out at a short filmmaking course. The DP running it has used Final Cut for his entire career. But not a single student chose to edit their film using Final Cut. The class was split between resolve and premier pro. (Premier was chosen by a lot of people because it’s what they use at school, and they have a free licence to premier from their school while they’re studying.)

Re: Apple Creator Studio

#357

Post by spankalee »

Tangential, but: MainStage the best deal in the entire pro audio industry.

As a keyboard player who mainly plays (and owns) classic electro-mechanical keyboards like Hammonds, Rhodes, Clavinets, and Wurlitzers, Apple's emulators that they brought from Logic are really top-notch - often better than what you get with dedicated hardware.

$30 is an insane price for what it delivers. I just wish it were available for iPad, and I'd use it more for gigging.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

#358

Post by pantulis »

wrs wrote: post #230
dylan604 wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you bought Logic Pro vX for 180€. Did you receive Logic Pro vX++ for free?

Yes, Logic updates have been free for many years. FCP as well.

Well what I didn't receive for free is the 3 macs that have been running the same licensed product ;)

Re: Apple Creator Studio

#359

Post by f_allwein »

movedx wrote: post #352
jwr wrote: post #276

After Apple suddenly discontinued Aperture, which left users like me with huge complex photo archives hanging, I will never trust any professional software tool from Apple again. It is a disaster that I still haven't fully recovered from. I've learned my lesson — all my archives will now be maintained by me, in file structures, with metadata in text files.

Please don’t take this as me saying you were wrong to ever trust Apple, however the best way to organise any data is usually just files on a disk. That’s becoming a recurring theme for me and even some of my corporate clients now. Confluence, for example, is out the window for secure documentation around sensitive environments and Word Docs in One Drive are back in. It’s surprisingly refreshing and gets the job done…

Power tip: replace the Word docs with Markdown.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

#360

Post by apgwoz »

herrherrmann wrote: post #329
apgwoz wrote: post #320

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Apple killed Aperture primarily because it was confusing to have iPhoto and Aperture with largely overlapping workflows. Aperture had the loupe view, and side by side comparison stuff, saved color grading tools (I think?), sure, but it wasn’t differentiated enough to justify a Pro designation. I think it makes more sense for Photomator features to be absorbed into Photos… and maybe Photos gets some new Pixelm…

Uff, I sure hope you are wrong! I don’t want to use the iCloud library for photos, but have my photos available as digital files elsewhere on the ssd. Of course, your prediction makes more sense from Apple’s standpoint, unfortunately.

I do like the convenience of iCloud, but totally agree that having them safe elsewhere is necessary. I’ve been pretty bad about keeping solid, non-iCloud backups of my photos. I definitely need to be more proactive about it.
Post reply on HN