RJM62
Touchdown! Greaser!
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Geek on the Hill
I just completed my day's work using no Adobe software whatsoever. That's the first time in about 15 years.
I edited five videos with Shotcut (FOSS), which does a good enough job if you don't need audio editing. Most of the videos I edit don't need audio work anyway. For those that do I can run them through Audacity and then reimport the audio onto the video. Shotcut was crashy for me with GPU rendering enabled, but works fine without it.
I'm also going to install Cinelerra on my Mint machine. I tried it once before and didn't care for it, but I'll give it another shot. I really didn't like Premiere Pro very much at first, either.
I used Affinity Photo for the photo editing. I also installed Affinity Designer, also made by Serif. They're an old company with a long history of producing inexpensive, but quite decent software. I didn't care for last years versions, but they've improved a lot this year.
Using Affinity for the photo editing only adds about three or four clicks per picture, which is okay. I had to make a few adjustments to my workflow to make that happen (for example, giving the source picture its final filename before I start editing it), but I can make about the same time I was making with Fireworks.
For creating new graphics, Affinity Designer is quite usable. I think I'll get to like it more than just "usable" when I get more accustomed to it. So really, it's taking two programs to replace my beloved Fireworks, which Adobe is no longer supporting, and which is getting crashier by the day.
I've been using Netbeans with XAMPP running Apache for HTML / PHP editing. It's better than Dreamweaver in some ways, especially as regarding the previews. It uses a browser rather than an integrated pane, which actually is better because that's how it ultimately will be viewed. (In fairness, DW also has that functionality, although it's a separate action.)
I can use Handbrake or FFmpeg for transcoding when I need it instead of Adobe Media Encoder.
I still have to come up with a replacement for Acrobat, which I don't use much anyway. When I do it's an older version because I can't stand DC (which keeps reinstalling itself whether I like it or not).
I'll be quite happy to be rid of Adobe. My biggest gripe with them is that they let Fireworks die. Had they kept maintaining Fireworks, I would have held my nose and renewed. But without it, the subscription isn't worth the money anymore.
Rich
I edited five videos with Shotcut (FOSS), which does a good enough job if you don't need audio editing. Most of the videos I edit don't need audio work anyway. For those that do I can run them through Audacity and then reimport the audio onto the video. Shotcut was crashy for me with GPU rendering enabled, but works fine without it.
I'm also going to install Cinelerra on my Mint machine. I tried it once before and didn't care for it, but I'll give it another shot. I really didn't like Premiere Pro very much at first, either.
I used Affinity Photo for the photo editing. I also installed Affinity Designer, also made by Serif. They're an old company with a long history of producing inexpensive, but quite decent software. I didn't care for last years versions, but they've improved a lot this year.
Using Affinity for the photo editing only adds about three or four clicks per picture, which is okay. I had to make a few adjustments to my workflow to make that happen (for example, giving the source picture its final filename before I start editing it), but I can make about the same time I was making with Fireworks.
For creating new graphics, Affinity Designer is quite usable. I think I'll get to like it more than just "usable" when I get more accustomed to it. So really, it's taking two programs to replace my beloved Fireworks, which Adobe is no longer supporting, and which is getting crashier by the day.
I've been using Netbeans with XAMPP running Apache for HTML / PHP editing. It's better than Dreamweaver in some ways, especially as regarding the previews. It uses a browser rather than an integrated pane, which actually is better because that's how it ultimately will be viewed. (In fairness, DW also has that functionality, although it's a separate action.)
I can use Handbrake or FFmpeg for transcoding when I need it instead of Adobe Media Encoder.
I still have to come up with a replacement for Acrobat, which I don't use much anyway. When I do it's an older version because I can't stand DC (which keeps reinstalling itself whether I like it or not).
I'll be quite happy to be rid of Adobe. My biggest gripe with them is that they let Fireworks die. Had they kept maintaining Fireworks, I would have held my nose and renewed. But without it, the subscription isn't worth the money anymore.
Rich