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			<title><![CDATA[Adobe Production Premium?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[For the past 6 months or so, I've been searching for and acquiring the necessities for my animations - the webcam, the frame-capture program, the microphone and such. And as I'm now approaching the stage where I can finally begin making my long though-about and planned videos, I've come to fully realise that I'll also need post-production software once the animating phase is over. 

Back in 2008, my dad made a heat-of-the-moment decision to buy a discounted copy of Final Cut Express 4, of which I can now say, was a rather regrettable move. Here's why; up until this year, my family had one computer, a 2006 iMac. This hardy machine, which is still chugging along fine today, has 1GB of RAM, and is therefore virtually incapable of running FCE4. Despite this, I kept the little white Final Cut box in my drawer for around four years, hoping that we could one day get a new, more capable computer. This has now been for-filled by the product of many years of saving on my part - my indescribably great birthday present; a 15 inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display.

Now you may say, "Why not install Final Cut Express onto it right away, and be done with writing this post?!" Well, the rMBP certainly has enough RAM, 16GB in fact, but that's not the issue. Final Cut Express 4 was released by Apple in 2007, and with the event of the radically new Final Cut Pro X last year, it has long become obsolete. So much so, there is absolutely no support for it, and to my knowledge, it hasn't received an update in over two years. As my rMBP runs OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, I further don't want to put a vastly outdated, unsupported piece of software onto it in case anything [i]unwanted[/i] happens. Another factor is the lack of Retina Display (my MacBook has a resolution of 2880x1880) support in FCE4, which means everything will appear extremely blurred, which will certainly stem my workflow. To add even more, Apple annoyingly doesn't offer a paid upgrade to Final Cut Pro X, unlike, say, Adobe would...

I very recently discovered Adobe Production Premium CS6, a boxset of programs including Premiere Pro, After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop Extended etc., which retails for $340 with a Student/Teacher discount. The main incentive, Premiere Pro, practically shares the beloved interface of Final Cut Pro X, as well as Retina support and heaps of added value. Production Premium also includes the highly acclaimed After Effects (which currently lacks Retina support :( ), so I'm extremely interested in purchasing it. I would love to have Final Cut Pro X, but it carries a $300 price tag that doesn't compete with the prized program value that Production Premium has.

Do you think this is a good decision? I don't take spending $300 lightly (it's last of my saving reserves), but I think this is an almost irresistible deal. Should I take the plunge? :o]]></description>
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