Is FC Studio too much application for hobbyist?
I visited my son at his college today. They have the academic version of the latest final cut studio for sale in the student store for $299. That's a steal compared to what it sells for in the Apple Store.
My MBP 2.0 is a little over 3 years old and i'm not sure if it can handle the demands of FCS. I have about 20 gigs of space on my internal HD and a few external drives with about 1tb of free space.
I edit using FC express now and do ok. But the $299 price is almost too hard to pass up.
I don't mind paying the $299 but I don't want to do it if my MBP would not be able to handle it.
I'd appreciate your thoughts and comments.
Thanks.
Maurice
C. L. wrote:
but why should that stop someone who wants to use it, and pay money for it from doing so.
Umm, because how you're suggesting they go about it, is a breach of the License Agreement? i.e. ILLEGAL ?
Sorry, but the licenses are NOT open to our interpretation. Just because you think we should be able to act however we want, doesn't make it right. In doubt? Ask an attorney to clarify it for you. See, there is no gray area here. If you suppose Studio X is being strict, well that's fine: that's the only way to be. You either keep it 100% legit and legal. Or you don't! There is no middle-of-the-road here! Sorry.
This is just like the people who ASSUME that it's A-Okay to use any music that they want in their videos because it's only for "private" use. Again, we don't have the luxury to interpret the law however we want. Despite our infinite ability to rationalize it.
So how do you try the software? Go to an Apple Store and have an employee show you as much as possible with FCE and/or FCP. Play around with them for a couple hours. Insufficient? Too bad.
And who says Apple is the ONLY way to go? Don't like the fact they don't have trial versions? Go to adobe.com and download their 30 day trial for Premiere! Tools are tools! Do you want to be an editor or a button-pusher? Point is: a great carpenter is great despite whose name is stamped on his hammer. Çraftsman, Stanley - irrelevant. Sure you have to commit to "someone's buttons" to start pushing in order to get the editing experience - I get it! But FCP doesn't help you make editing decisions. Neither does Premiere, or AVID, or Vegas, Quantel, Smoke....
I'm not so naive to think that there aren't 1,000's of people using FCP (& the Suite) illegally. However, when we get folks on the "fringe", like our OP here, it's our duty to bring them into the fold of 100% legitimacy. We should NOT be encouraging anything but this. Bending the rules IS breaking the rules!
If we can guide our "peers", is it best to have them steal the software outright, bootleg it? Completely and blatantly break the law? Or is it better to encourage them to break the law a LITTLE bit, by spending some money, while still breaking the license agreement? Some money is better than nothing, right? Sounds like you're condoning the latter.
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