Told Ya - Adobe caters for non-commercial cameras

Question

I just had to come and say TOLD YA.
I've been investigating cs5.5
I've been watching Adobe TV
And YES, Adobe now caters for, encourages, welcomes, and teaches non-commercial users to use their products.
For years I’ve complained that Adobe didn’t have the codec’s/tools/features for real people using real off-the-shelf equipment. i said its an oversight at best, a serious business flaw at worst. Their advertising was most definitely all-inclusive, not just to 'professionals'. But their products were most lacking.
And here in the forums i kept being told how Adobe was for professionals only with professional tools, and reading further I saw the solution to almost every question was 'first use 3rd party software' to convert/clean/edit/standardise/etc.
So to all you 'professionals' i say HA.
IN YOUR FACE.
With cs5.5 you can use any off-the-shelf cameras (yes, including the seriously low budget/disposable stuff). No need for HD, extra codec packs, 3rd party expensive software. You don’t even need extra plugins (unless you are going for some speciality, obviously!)
So welcome One And All.
Abode's business planners are finally on the ball.

Answer 1

Christian,
I agree completely. I do have a degree in film, but when I say "film," I really do mean FILM. Video was in its infancy back in those days, and was highly restricted to either live, on-air, with maybe a switcher in the chain, or went to 2" video tape, that was editable with a block and razor blade w/ tape. "ENG" was sill in the future. All I got was the concept of production, general editing (limited to film), some artistic background, and little more than the basics, related to what we see as digital video today. Still, would not trade those years for anything, even if much no longer applies.
In the middle of my career, I spent most days and nights doing stills for advertising, and jumped on digital image manipulation when it first hit. Before, we had been doing image compositing in the darkroom with some world-class gear, but with the limitations of analog compositing. Yeah, we had some sophisticated vacuum frames, a NASA lens, tons of lith film, emulsion stripping, dye and bleach work with a "one-hair brush," and some true artists and advanced technicians, but we were still limited. I saw one of the first Scitex demos in the US, and knew that I was looking at the future. After about a year with Aldus PhotoStyler, Photoshop hit for the PC, and I never looked back. However, even so armed, I was a firm believer that I needed to do everything possible in the creation of my images, and only use PS as a tool to get even closer to prefection. Back then, I was still shooting mostly 4 x 5 and some 8 x 10, and all of my Ektachrome had to be drum-scanned to get it into PS - there was not digital capture yet, though we DID experiment with an HP scanner (was my biggest client in those days) mounted onto one of our Cambo 8 x 10's. Let's just say that it was NOT a Leaf...
Like you, I maintain that it's about the image (or footage), and far, far less about the tools used. I have seen "art" created with an oatmeal box pin-hole camera.
Though I have not done a spreadsheet on it over the last 15 years, the image of mine, that has sold the most was a "happy snap" of my wife on a carousel horse at a long-since gone amusement park. It was done on a Sunday visit with an old Nikon F and an equally old Nikkor 105mm f/2.5. I was just shooting some family shots, but that one struck a chord with so many art directors, and has been used for selling all sorts of products and services. Probably need to pull out the invoices, as my Maroon Bells in Autumn might have passed it now. Still, I was not attempting to create art, but just record a family moment at the park and guess that I got lucky. My work on my BFA really had nothing to do with grabbing that shot.
Along the lines of the subject by the OP, I was a bit surprised to see that Adobe and Nokia have teamed up. It seems that most of that partnering is around Flash, but a bit has filtered over to PrPro. This came as a bit of a shock to me, but partnerships can create some odd bed-fellows. Who knows, we might see specific Nokia smart-phone video Presets in PrPro CS6?
Just thinking here,
Hunt