{"id":449,"date":"2013-06-20T15:04:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T22:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2013-06-20T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T22:04:05","slug":"adobe-creative-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/2013\/06\/20\/adobe-creative-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Creative Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adobe<\/a> finally released the much advertized \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Creative Cloud<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d version of their applications<\/a> this week.\u00c2\u00a0 The most significant aspect of that change is that significant software updates can be released on a much faster cycle.\u00c2\u00a0 The other big change is that instead of buying a permanent license for a specific application, users buy a monthly subscription to access all of Adobe’s software, to be downloaded and installed whenever they need it.\u00c2\u00a0 Contrary to what the name implies, the software doesn’t actually get hosted from the cloud, only the installers do.\u00c2\u00a0 Similar to previous versions of Creative Suite, owning a single license allows software to be installed on two systems, and anything beyond that will require juggling activations.
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\nBesides the changes to way the software is delivered to the end user, there are a whole host of improvements in the individual apps.\u00c2\u00a0 Obviously I focus primarily on Premiere Pro<\/a>, but there are lots of other applications included with Creative Cloud.\u00c2\u00a0 Photoshop<\/a> has a bunch of new automated sharpening tools, Speedgrade<\/a> has a user interface, and After Effects <\/a>integrates with\u00c2\u00a0Cinema4D<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Premiere Pro has new tools for more efficiently managing source assets.\u00c2\u00a0 Projects can be moved and linked easier, and exchanged with other NLEs, like Avid<\/a> and FCP, with broader support for XML and AAF import and export.\u00c2\u00a0 The Mercury Playback Engine is now optimized to take advantage of multiple GPUs if available.<\/p>\n

One of the new developments with the most potential to change workflows in the future, is support for Adobe Anywhere<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 If it works as advertized, Adobe Anywhere will allow projects to be shared between editors, for a more collaborative creative experience.\u00c2\u00a0 That will actually be a cloud supported feature, since the projects and media with be hosted on a server, and encoded live for network based playback.\u00c2\u00a0 This is similar to how Avid Interplay <\/a>works, so we will begin to see some competition at that level.<\/p>\n

To be completely honest, I never really embraced CS6 for my own projects, and still have CS5.5 on my personal systems.\u00c2\u00a0 But as soon as I can find a new laptop I like, I will be jumping to the new versions of all the Adobe applications.\u00c2\u00a0 But my search for a latest generation laptop is another whole story for next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adobe finally released the much advertized \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Creative Cloud\u00e2\u20ac\u009d version of their applications this week.\u00c2\u00a0 The most significant aspect of that change is that significant software updates can be released on a much faster cycle.\u00c2\u00a0 The other big change is that instead of buying a permanent license for a specific application, users buy a monthly subscription […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}