Thanks for reminding me to cancel my subscription! Going cracked's been something I've put off for too long. For anyone else in a similar boat, if you want to avoid the BS cancellation fees, you can just change your plan to something else, then cancel that plan immediately and you can get a full refund!
For anyone not signed up for subscription and wanting to avoid payig "BS cancellation fees" go to school and go over basic reading comprehension, you will need it. Especially when subscribing to Adobe and you choose the "Annual, paid monthly" option with the "Fees apply if you cancel before XX/XX" right under it. Otherwise you're in for a bad time as many yearly contracts have fees attached to them if you void them. E.g. house mortgage, car financing etc. All of those are the "Annual, paid monthly"
@@VilleRemes Hopefully, but it's still stupid. Similar to how you need to pay 2.99 on Windows for HEVC plugin just to play videos, yet VLC (based in France where there aren't software patents) works with HEVC out of the box.
If you're in good standing with your credit card company! A lot of people pass this info around for everything. If you charge back all the time, your bank may crack down on your account. Be reasonable. If you are otherwise a smart shopped and this is the one time. Yeah you can just tell your credit card company you want Adobe to **** off. Can even be done online most of the time.
Or just cancel it. Although that is assuming you selected the "Monthly subscription" option and not the "Annual, paid monthly" when buying Adobe. I'm sure people aren't that dumb not to read the "cancellation fee applies if you cancel after XX/XX" right under the radio select button they clicked on
@@randoguy7488 a court is finding they hid the cancellation fees behind the "you agree to the _terms and conditions"_ checkbox in many cases. An average consumer isn't thinking that a software subscription service is going to be like a landlord or phone company counting on them paying for a certain time period to have customer retention. Don't call consumers bad for this, it doesn't solve the problem.
Well done. So glad I bought one of the last CS suites. I went with CC at first, but around 2021 just had had enough of their buggy crap. Reinstalled CS, and that, along with open source apps, is fine for me.
I'm so glad I stumbled upon this channel nearly 2 years ago, these videos are well produced and manage to explain some of the marketing stories in recent years. Anyway, Adobe is no longer worth using tbh, not because their features are bad, but because you're better off not having them suck you dry of all your money.
Used it one of my projects and I must say the uncanny nature of the results it produces discouraged me from wanting to try it again. I can't believe they have the gull to INCREASE the entry price for their subscriptions now.
Real question though - what are the free open source easy to use competitors to Premiere? The closest I've seen is DaVinci Resolve but that's not open source. Are you talking about stuff like KdenLive and Shotcut?
3:27 this bit seems a little off to me. There is no open-source video editing software that's on the same level as premier at the moment. There's davinci and capcut which are free and legit competition to adobe but both are very much closed source.
I've used blender for a couple freelance gigs. Small companies like the option of changing the edit later with free software, especially when they're still waiting on some assets to put in the edit. Blender's video editor is surprisingly competent.
He was probably referring to Kdenlive as the 'OS' part of that FOSS. As @readyforlol points out; Blender has surprisingly (for those not in it's ecosystem) solid capability in this area.
As a software dev and someone who used to do thumbnail designs in Photoshop, I am sick and tired of all these big companies (especially Adobe) pushing generative AI Anyway, Procreate ftw (their CEO hates generative AI!)
i fucking hate adobe at this point two years ago i also hated it but way less. i wish i could swtich but i cant adobe is a monopoly and ther are no other worthy competitors
Not true. There are tradeoffs to be sure, but if you aren't tied to a larger entity or don't have a workflow that basically uses Adobe as a platform for a bunch of plugins that fill the numerous holes in it's software, you have far more options than you did even a handfull of years ago.
@@FlameForgedSoul There's no plugin that adds interoperability and live linking of files between software. You can put a Photoshop file into Illustrator and Audacity file into After Effects and then combine them into Premiere Pro, but sadly you can't do that with any other software. For people working in a pipeline or with others, there's no viable alternative.
I entirely understand that, while AI is not a replacement for creativity, as people can be quite creative with AI, Adobe and other multi-billion dollar companies form a part of a Tech Bro grift that attempts to eliminate real artists from the job market and do some sort of "innovation for its own sake", while entirely dismisisng the community that allowed for such innovation to happen in the first place.
People just dont care. Look at windows. People still use windows eventhough linux is superior and less nagging. Because it's good enough. And as Windows is good enough and the industry standard, it will keep being the industry standard. So will Adobe products. See how comments dont talk about alternative but only piracy.
It's a cycle. People don't use Linux (perhaps because they don't know how to), so companies don't design for Linux, and as programmes aren't compatible, many people won't switch to Linux. I for example use Windows because Scrivener isn't available for Linux.
![I Replaced ALL my ADOBE APPS with these [free or cheaper] Alternatives!](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/5EfqHg49kMk/mqdefault.jpg)
Adobe is so bad, that in my school they prefered to tell us how to crack a previous version of Photoshop than buying the newer one.
Same at my college. It was a 'I'm just going to leave this disc here and if it gets copied it's nothing to do with me' thing from the lecturer.
Thank you for encapsulating just how I feel with this damn service, I can't stand just how much they keep slamming these useless features in my face.
I'm still running CS2 and CS4 on my computers and they do everything I need thanks! Excellent video, always glad to see more of your work!
I was on CS6 since 2012 until now.
why do you use two different versions?
Thanks for reminding me to cancel my subscription! Going cracked's been something I've put off for too long.
For anyone else in a similar boat, if you want to avoid the BS cancellation fees, you can just change your plan to something else, then cancel that plan immediately and you can get a full refund!
For anyone not signed up for subscription and wanting to avoid payig "BS cancellation fees" go to school and go over basic reading comprehension, you will need it. Especially when subscribing to Adobe and you choose the "Annual, paid monthly" option with the "Fees apply if you cancel before XX/XX" right under it.
Otherwise you're in for a bad time as many yearly contracts have fees attached to them if you void them. E.g. house mortgage, car financing etc. All of those are the "Annual, paid monthly"
2:54 You should've mentioned that Adobe holds patents to PDF, that's why there's not many viable PDF editors and they REALLY want you to use Acrobat
At least patents expire. Adobe's PDF related patatents most likely expire in a decade or less
@@VilleRemes Hopefully, but it's still stupid. Similar to how you need to pay 2.99 on Windows for HEVC plugin just to play videos, yet VLC (based in France where there aren't software patents) works with HEVC out of the box.
Affinity all the way 👌
Adobe used AI to come up with customer-related business solutions.
For everyone trying to cancel an Adobe subscription, just do a chargeback for no service.
If you're in good standing with your credit card company! A lot of people pass this info around for everything. If you charge back all the time, your bank may crack down on your account. Be reasonable. If you are otherwise a smart shopped and this is the one time. Yeah you can just tell your credit card company you want Adobe to **** off. Can even be done online most of the time.
Or just cancel it. Although that is assuming you selected the "Monthly subscription" option and not the "Annual, paid monthly" when buying Adobe. I'm sure people aren't that dumb not to read the "cancellation fee applies if you cancel after XX/XX" right under the radio select button they clicked on
@@randoguy7488 a court is finding they hid the cancellation fees behind the "you agree to the _terms and conditions"_ checkbox in many cases. An average consumer isn't thinking that a software subscription service is going to be like a landlord or phone company counting on them paying for a certain time period to have customer retention.
Don't call consumers bad for this, it doesn't solve the problem.
Just pirate it.
They pirate our work so yeah we should do the same to Adobe.
remember, it probably is ethical to despise Adobe...
Well done. So glad I bought one of the last CS suites. I went with CC at first, but around 2021 just had had enough of their buggy crap. Reinstalled CS, and that, along with open source apps, is fine for me.
I'm so glad I stumbled upon this channel nearly 2 years ago, these videos are well produced and manage to explain some of the marketing stories in recent years.
Anyway, Adobe is no longer worth using tbh, not because their features are bad, but because you're better off not having them suck you dry of all your money.
I’m stuck on Lightroom and adobe express. I refuse to update my Adobe express app. 😅
Used it one of my projects and I must say the uncanny nature of the results it produces discouraged me from wanting to try it again. I can't believe they have the gull to INCREASE the entry price for their subscriptions now.
how do I retweet this 😭
Real question though - what are the free open source easy to use competitors to Premiere? The closest I've seen is DaVinci Resolve but that's not open source. Are you talking about stuff like KdenLive and Shotcut?
what's your open source suggestion for adobe premiere?
3:27 this bit seems a little off to me. There is no open-source video editing software that's on the same level as premier at the moment. There's davinci and capcut which are free and legit competition to adobe but both are very much closed source.
I've used blender for a couple freelance gigs. Small companies like the option of changing the edit later with free software, especially when they're still waiting on some assets to put in the edit.
Blender's video editor is surprisingly competent.
He was probably referring to Kdenlive as the 'OS' part of that FOSS. As @readyforlol points out; Blender has surprisingly (for those not in it's ecosystem) solid capability in this area.
As a software dev and someone who used to do thumbnail designs in Photoshop, I am sick and tired of all these big companies (especially Adobe) pushing generative AI
Anyway, Procreate ftw (their CEO hates generative AI!)
I only liked Adode Flash Player, thanks.
Gen AI is not a tool for replacement of human creativity... but maybe it is tool for replacement of professional designer's creativty.
adobe deal to buy figma for 20B have collapsed due to regulatory pressure
Procreate is so much more fun to use than Photoshop and does basically everything Photoshop can do. Its also basically free compared to Photoshop.
i fucking hate adobe at this point two years ago i also hated it but way less. i wish i could swtich but i cant adobe is a monopoly and ther are no other worthy competitors
Not true. There are tradeoffs to be sure, but if you aren't tied to a larger entity or don't have a workflow that basically uses Adobe as a platform for a bunch of plugins that fill the numerous holes in it's software, you have far more options than you did even a handfull of years ago.
@@FlameForgedSoul There's no plugin that adds interoperability and live linking of files between software. You can put a Photoshop file into Illustrator and Audacity file into After Effects and then combine them into Premiere Pro, but sadly you can't do that with any other software. For people working in a pipeline or with others, there's no viable alternative.
I entirely understand that, while AI is not a replacement for creativity, as people can be quite creative with AI, Adobe and other multi-billion dollar companies form a part of a Tech Bro grift that attempts to eliminate real artists from the job market and do some sort of "innovation for its own sake", while entirely dismisisng the community that allowed for such innovation to happen in the first place.
By "creative with AI" do you mean slapping a picture of a gorilla with 6 thumbs onto another hazy double IPA?
Talk about the motogp new logo pls it's so bad
People just dont care. Look at windows. People still use windows eventhough linux is superior and less nagging. Because it's good enough. And as Windows is good enough and the industry standard, it will keep being the industry standard. So will Adobe products. See how comments dont talk about alternative but only piracy.
It's a cycle. People don't use Linux (perhaps because they don't know how to), so companies don't design for Linux, and as programmes aren't compatible, many people won't switch to Linux. I for example use Windows because Scrivener isn't available for Linux.
@@elainelouvenot only that, installation of apps is much user friendly on Windows as compared to Linux
some apps i frequently need on windows aren't available on linux
People use software on an OS, people don't use an OS
linux is trash in gaming so go away with that