Sadly, FCP-X is already cracked and widely available. Pretty effed up
On Jun 28, 2011, at 9:12 PM, Dylan Reeve wrote:
> When I talked to an Adobe country manager in the early 2000s he straight up
> told me that they actually counted on piracy to some extent. He knew that
> above all else it was important for them to be the software people knew how
> to use and consequently demanded.
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> I'm fairly certain that the same was true of FCP. Most people I knew when I
> was at film school had a cracked (actually just downloaded with a serial
> from the web, no crack necessary) copy of FCP if they had a Mac. I had a
> cracked copy of Xpress DV for a while but it wasn't very stable on my
> system. I did get some good extra practice on that.
>
> Since I've gratuated, of course, I've personally arranged the purchase of at
> least 5 copies of Media Composer, as well as lobied in favour of larger
> scale purchases. I've also in that time been responsible for sales on one
> copy of Final Cut Studio and three copies of Adobe Creative Suite.
>
> The people who learn these tools are the same ones who later motivate sales
> of those tools.
>
> Personally I think Avid should get crazy in the face of this - a 1-to-1
> no-cost replacement of Final Cut Studio for educational institutions, and
> deep discounts on Avid IO hardware.
>
> It would be a "lost" revenue of $295 for each installation, but the value in
> having future editors exposed to Avid will far exceed that.
>
>
> Dylan Reeve
> http://dylanreeve.com/
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>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Terence Curren <tcurren@aol.com> wrote:
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>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Mark Myers <MarkM@...> wrote:
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>> <<I have seen a lot of cracked versions of Avid for both Mac and PC among
>>> my students. It is fairly readily available. >>
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>> Must be since they went dongle-less. Last time I looked into this area it
>> was only PC versions and they were hosted in China.
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