WHY do I pay Adobe $10K a YEAR!?

- In total, I pay just $ 10000 a

year

for

adobe

software. A fact that remind me painfully every time my editors complain that Adobe still does not have a decent HDR work flow and that crash directly when they wish. Now, that was not always the case. Once upon a time, when he paid for the software, he owned a perpetual license to use it, before dark times. Before software as a service. But there is a light in this dark and dark world. Not all companies have adopted the tendency to charge for their software per month, so I challenged my team to discover it, editing the production that you are watching at this time, if we can make videos without touching a single Pay-Forever application.

That means there is no

adobe

and how that would be. So, have we freed ourselves from Adobe's claws? Well, it's complicated. Do you know what is not complicated? If you should consult our sponsor. The new EVO16-S transmitter package of Origin PC on one or two business days and comes with multiple transmission accessories and a Samsung 960 Evo M.2 Gig Gig 960 starter unit for fast loading times. Get more information on the link below. (Optimistic music) Let's start by ingesting the footage of our camera. While Adobe has a prelude to this, I don't think many people really use it.

It is clumsy and does not offer many advantages over simply dragging its clips directly to the premiere. Kyno, on the other hand, is light, admits a wide range of codecs and types of files, and is excellent for administering batch processes such as transcoding or file name change. Once you have registered and organized your footage, a right click action can take it directly to your choice. - Also known as your video editing program. Unlike Prelude, Kyno is not based on projects, it is essentially as a special file browser, personalized to the editors and the breakdown function is incredible.

It allows you to see all video, audio or image files in that unit or folder, regardless of what subfolders are, which is especially useful when treated with memory cards from different cameras or recorders that can have different folder structures. - And it's much better than using Finder. I get the characteristics of both, but it is as simple as only opening the file explorer. It is very sweet. - And the difference between your billing and adobe approach is that if you decide that you do not need updates, you can continue using that software after the end of the support period. - This looks great so far.

On the other hand, we were already using Kyno, so it was not a great section. The following is our non -linear editor or nle. In fact, we had a couple of options here, with the main ones being Vegas Pro, Avid Media Composer and Da Vinci Resolve. Let's start with Vegas because it has a customizable user interface, similar to Premiere Pro, even if you feel a bit of the old school. Audio audio tools in Vegas Pro are really quite similar to Premiere, but the lack of dynamic bond of hearing is a clear reduction. That means you must send audio from Vegas to a dedicated audio editor, then remove it.

Then there is limited functionality when it comes to working with multiple sequences within a single project because, well, you can't do it. Now Vegas added the ability to work with nested sequences, but it is a Jankky solution, which implies having a separate project in its timeline. So enough to say that, despite my personal taste for it, we are going to pull the lever on it. That is a Las Vegas joke. As for Avid, well, honestly, it is part of the same category that we are trying to get away. Avid, Adobe, Pro Tools, these are industry giants who have robust characteristics sets but also have equally robust prices.

Avid is also much more suitable for a more traditional cinematographic style workflow, where you can have multiple editors, editing attendees, colorists and VFX artists who work in the same project. We, and most other creators of YouTube content, usually have one or two editors, at most, handling all aspects of a production, so the way in which Adobe applications are dynamically bind to each other, without having to export anything is almost as incredible this shirt of Lttstore.com. Then, is Vinci resolve. It is cheap, there is even a free version, and has great performance, along with what could be said that they are the best color rating controls in any of the programs we have mentioned, including the premiere.

It also has an audio edition built with Fairlight and effects of effects incorporated with fusion. It can have multiple sequences and sequences nested in a project, which makes, well, it makes a little more meaning for people who are accustomed to their premiere. Resolve seems to be our best option, so that is what we are going to use to edit the video you are currently enjoying. - (Murmurons) Some slippery things acquire some standard things, such as cutting clips or slippions. The way it provides visual feedback makes it much easier to make it premiere. The color rating is excellent because you have a lot of control above all.

And because the resolution is so accelerated by GPU, the reproduction performance is fantastic. Even with color degrees or some effects, everything is quite soft. However, it is not perfect, since there is this problem in which you run out of GPU memory and you have to restart the resolution. From what I can say, the only real solution is to throw more GPU. Learning to use resolve is a kind of steep curve due to its unusual design, which honestly encounters a bit annoying because you really cannot customize it in addition to changing the size of its panels. You can light them or turn them off, but you cannot decoupling and moving them, so really, you are stuck with the basic design.

You can use more than one monitor, but, again, you cannot choose what goes where and you should disable full screen mode before you can minimize or change the main window. - Because? Because? However, at least the price is correct. Anyway, as we said, the solve audio edit module is called Fairalight and is ideal for cutting and mixing audio. But compared to Adobe Audion or other digital audio work stations such as Pro Tools, Logic and Qbase, it is quite light in the characteristics. Get it? - We do not do so much audio processing in addition to some level adjustments.

And if we do, Fairalight admits many of the same accessories as the hearing. In addition, we are used to auditioning to be dynamically linked to Premiere Pro, so the fact that Fairalight is essentially part of Resolve is a great advantage. - And how much does this cost per month? Actually? Wow. The situation is similar to oceanic graphics. The effects of Vegas would be a decent option here, if we had gone with Vegas Pro for our nle, because they actually have some linking functionality, similar to adobe applications. But we did not do it because although Vegas Effects has some of the same functionalities as Adobe After Effects, and it is relatively easy to use, it is not so capable anywhere so capable.

Fusion, on the other hand, is an interesting candidate, particularly for composition. - But although the system based on fusion nodes makes it an excellent option for composition and special effects, once it takes over the interface, that is, the motion graphics are complicated compared to doing so in the subsequent effects. You can use fusion as a tab within the resolution, but if you need more flexibility, you can also use the Standalone Fusion Studio application, which can be activated with the same license you bought to solve. - You know, this is going well until now. I'm going to save a lot of money.

Finally, there are image editors and, as a result, there is a reason why Photoshop has become the kleenex of photoshopping things. I want to say that there are Vegas Image, which comes with Vegas effects on a package, but it is ... I don't know, it is less a Photoshop alternative and more as a unique and confusing combination of After Effects and Lightroom. So we will go with a program called Affinity Photo. It does not have the last bells and whistles of Photoshop, and it does an edition of non -destructive raw images for some reason, but for 95% of the things that people normally do with Photoshop, it is actually quite good. - As long as you don't need to collaborate with Photoshop users.

And while you can export to PSD, there are conversion problems. Although they say that the next main version will solve these. And the way in which the work of layers, masks and effects requires a little time to get used, although the intuition of the user interface certainly helps. For illustrator type tasks, there is also affinity design and history here is very similar. You can open Illustrator files but you can't save them, and their tracking characteristics and pathfinder are weaker. But in general, he will do the job. - That's all, we did it! We edit a video, we begin to finish, without adobe.

But are we going to maintain this release train and swear forever? No, we are really going to drag them directly to them and here is why. First, the size of your application library has no parallel, whether you are creating videos with effects, audio, image, documents, web pages, there is an application for that. And in the current era, where many creators are bands of a single man, or woman, instead of having a dit to ingest, as an assistant editor to register, an editor to cut, a designer, an animator for graphics, etc. The second is intercompatibility. For better or worse, almost everyone else uses adobe and nobody likes to be that guy who sends the strange file formats that no one else can open.

The point is that you cannot choose who you are doing business with and not all in the largest world have the technology expert or the will to deal with your snowfront file format. And guys, it is a creative industry, collaboration is a large part of it. Finally, I realize that it has already been mentioned a couple of times, but the way in which Adobe applications are dynamically binding each other drastically reduce the time that would otherwise pass, exporting, editing and then importing files between their applications. So I asked our team how close they think we could reach the levels of creative suite efficiency and the highest number I got was, "to 90%." At first glance, that sounds quite well.

That is an A. But let's make some shipwrecked here. The average video editor in the United States earns around $ 29 per hour. We have seven of those. So, assuming we were paying those rates, our editing staff would cost us around $ 420000 per

year

. Nice. So, if we had to reduce its productivity by 10%, eliminating its preferred software as a cost savings measure, we would have to reduce our production schedule of 17 videos per week, costing the company's income, or we would have to hire to cover that difference, costing the company more than $ 40000 per year. In addition, the additional space we would need in the building, the additional edition workstation, I think you see where I go with this.

I mean, we are not saying that using Vegas or solving or even some of the incredible free editing tools, such as Hitfilm Express, will not work for you. We are just saying that even if you feel a bit like Stockholm syndrome, Adobe is still our best option. For now. Like our best option for our sponsor for this video is Corsair. Dark Core RGB Gaming Mouse has three different ways of connecting to its PC. Ultra-fast, a millisecond, 2.4 GHz wireless. Bluetooth low latency, which is compatible with a wide range of devices. And, of course, the USB with cable for use throughout the day.

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