About buying PSE 9...

To cut things short,
I came across PSE8 by chance, I had just heard about it in som photo magazine, and I was happy to find the Trial download and after using it I was rapidly searching for good price on it and wanting to buy it. But I discovered that version 9 was about to come out.
Now I have 6 days left on the trial and not until mid October there will be an swedish version out. I'm thinking about installing CS5 trial to get 30 days with it and maybe the english PSE9 trial to further get 30 days before I buy the swedish version 9...
I don't see and easy way to change language in PSE, and I'm afraid that if I buy the english version I won't be able to switch over to swedish, which is very strange - all other software lets you switch easy, I don't know why it is soo hard in PS...
In this jumble of installed versions and soo on, there might arise problems, that I am afraid of, will I be able to install the PSE 9 swedish and uninstall the english trial/CS5 trial and PSE8 trial and get everything allright? Is there an easy way to buy the english PSE9 now and simply switch to swedish later?

Allright!
And all my Organizer work stays if I uninstall Trial 8 and after that install CS5 Trial? (I have made a lot of Organizer work creating albums by date and motif soo I don't want to loose it - and the backup backups all the photos and I don't want to do that, I handle backups of my photos and videos (30GB) another way. I wish there were an backup of Organizer albums and structure then I would be safe and sure, maybe i can understand that the structure of albums in Organizer is one of those Shared files/catalogs that does not uninstall when the PSE8 Trial i uninstalled, but I would like to be reassured about it)

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Hi Janet,
To give a comparative analysis from PSE 3 to PSE 8, may be someone from the forum might be able to help you, but to see the comparison chart from PSE 6 version to PSE 8, may be the below link will help you...
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Also, a classmate who was in CA last weekend said he heard that Apple will drop support of FCPX.
While it is against the TOU of these boards to speculate on future products/updates what Thomas said is right: FCPX is quite a new product and it doesn't make any sense to drop it now.
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To all thinking about buying an A/D Converter Miglia's Director's Cut

If you search for 'Miglia' in this forum you'll find you won't be alone with a Miglia problem...
I understand that a machine can have a defect, but if you won't acknowledge that to your customers and leave them troubleshooting for years, you're basically conning them.
I, for one, have had problems with my 3 year old Miglia DC2 on 3(!) different computers (1 G4 and 2 G5's)!! I sent my unit to England during my warranty 2 years ago and they found nothing to be wrong with it. Now that I exchanged my G5 dual core for a G5 Quad, I thought I'd give it another shot. Still problems.
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Yes, they seem very patient and helpful but now that I've read the problems on this forum I realize that they've been playing me like a ... They know about these problems but keep suggesting it's your computer ie hardware ie setup ie software. I have literally spent weeks trying to solve my problems, time that Miglia could have saved me. But they chose to keep me ignorant, either willingly or because their lab and tech dept is incompetent.
I am now being sent a firewire card because they 'strongly suspect' it's the firewirecard in my G5. They told me if it turns out to be the card, I can keep it and pay for it or return it.
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Questions about buying a new Mac Pro for 4k video editing.

Hi everyone,
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The late 2013 Mc Pro uses Intel Xeon ECC processors (error correction), and as far as I know Intel has not announced any newer Intel Xeon processors than those in the late 2013 Mac Pro. I would not expect to see an update to the 2013 Mac Pro until the end of 2015 at the earliest and probably later than that.
If time is not an issue, then you should be quite happy with the 6 core 2013 Mac Pro. It will do an excellent job with 4K video footage. And, yes, I would suggest getting the best raid system you can afford. That is actually more important than processor speed since I/O is frequently the bottleneck when doing multi camera video or 4K video.
I have the latest version of Adobe's Premiere Pro 2014 CC installed on my late 2013 Mac Pro and i have used it a bit without problems. However, I find it much much slower to edit with than FCP X. Also be advised that if you Google you will find several individuals on the Adobe Forums who purchased the late 2013 Mac Pro and have not been able to use it with Premiere Pro CC because of either a hardware incompatibility or software issues between Premiere Pro CC and BMD's Resolve. It is quite possible that I have not experienced these problems because I have not made very demanding projects with Premiere Pro CC on my 2013 Mac Pro.
I strongly recommend FCP X. Apple released FCP X before it was ready, and many early users were unwilling to take the time to learn how to use this very different NLE which is not track based. Apple has over the last 3 years since FCP X was released, issued more than 10 updates (all free), and the program is stable and blazingly fast. I urge you to check out the FCP X training offered by Ripple Training and/or Larry Jordan. Both are inexpensive, and worth every cent. Watch their training videos and you will be up to speed in FCP X in no time at all, and you will wish you had switched a long time ago.
If you can afford the 1 TB of PCie internal flash storage on your Mac Pro, then by all means get it. For me 1TB is well worth the cost.
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