Well, I wish Adobe had just outright BOUGHT the authoring technology, as it was one of the most user-friendly and intuitive interfaces (others will disagree with me) I've ever used for authoring a DVD or blu-ray.  It seems a lot of people I talk to are fine with just having their raw media and finished productions on solid-state flash memory, SSD, etc., but I have a discomfort level with that (and not because I'm resistant to change).  From what I've read, flash memory of all types are still pretty volatile and we don't know how long they'll last.  I think the computing industry is still shortsighted as far as not having a present-day technology that can act as a true archive technology - I'm talking about one that can last AT LEAST 100 years, preferably thousands, so we can always access records of things (especially important where I work, a county government where someone may want to access one of our meetings years or decades from now, for research or whatever).  Why is it that today (thousands of years later) we can still see at least ruins of the Colosseum or read Egyptian hieroglyphics, but we can't make a computer storage medium last that long and keep its data intact?  That's what scares me.  And most of us don't have Hollywood money to print back to film.   As for one-off projects, that's fine, but what if you want to create a project that's episodic in nature, where you might want to have different sequences for different episodes within one project, but just have a Titles bin where you can drag and drop the same titles onto different sequences as you work on them?  Seems a lot easier to me than having to copy and paste from one sequence to another. ... View more

And I'm sure others here feel the same way, but upgrades should never TAKE AWAY features that editors feel useful (e.g., horizontal crawls, or ENCORE - some of us still like to master to disc! - you should have kept and improved Encore and added 4K blu-ray capability). ... View more

Exactly!  You should focus on stability, stability, stability, and maybe also making your color corrector more like DaVinci's. ... View more

Yes, horizontal scrolling text.  It's pretty common on television still to this day, and Adobe had the capability before; I'm not sure why Adobe "taketh away" certain features they once spent time and money developing prior. ... View more

I've mostly gotten used to the new Graphics now, but...   1. I still have some older projects that I may be asked to go back in and re-edit and have to change a title that may have been created in Legacy Title.  If that completely goes away, will I need to recreate that title from scratch?   2. On the new Graphics tool, how do I do true rolls and crawls?  I do a lot of PSA's with crawling text on the lower third, and while I know I can keyframe the entire text block to move from A to B on the screen, I would like to be able to see what I'm typing by having the text move continuously as I type to create it, as I could with a real crawl option. ... View more

I use VEGAS DVD Architect for $99.  It's okay, gets the job done, but I really miss Encore's more intuitive/more polished interface and its tight integration with Photoshop for designing custom menus. ... View more

Because the newer titler is just married to the timeline/sequence.  I like the idea of just being able to have a bin of titles in my project that I can just drag and reuse, especially for a TV/video series (e.g., the name title for a host, commonly featured interviewee, etc.).  Actually, I miss the days when titles themselves were separate *files* that I could just import into any project, and they weren't just married to one project file. ... View more

Looks like a challenge for your development team to take on for future versions!  There's an algorithm for everything, yes?  Yes, a dead cat is best (although it looks silly and is a distraction, especially for lavalier mics), but sometimes, like in my case, my "august" and "noble" coworkers lost all the lav dead cats we had, but the shoot had to go on! ... View more

Yes, but only if we get to the point where we all get REALLY fast, high bandwidth Internet (e.g., fiber, 10-gigabit or more, etc.) to get the exact same performance as a traditional software program installed locally on a desktop - especially highly advanced creative software that's so resource-intensive. And I think even the browser is now an antiquated idea, everything accesses the Internet/cloud via cloud apps these days.  Time will tell if Adobe will make the cloud apps (not to be confused with Cloud, brand name, programs of today that install and run on the desktop) OS-agnostic or still only access the cloud (generic sense) via Windows or Mac.  If trends are any indication, however, it looks like the future of all IoT, including desktops or whatever desk-based terminal will be called in the future, will be and are today Linux-based, even according to growing Microsoft trends; I think even they see the writing on the wall.  So if Adobe is looking to the future at all with IoT, they might as well start now developing the CC applications with a Linux codebase for the future, starting with Red Hat & Ubuntu desktops. ... View more

Better than GIMP? ... View more

Yet??  Accidentally let something slip there? ... View more

And even Microsoft supports Linux, particularly Ubuntu - they have Linux dev tools within Windows now, even have Ubuntu Desktop OS as a download in the Microsoft Store, so what the heck Adobe? ... View more

Especially since Microsoft's been ROYALLY screwing up Windows 10 lately, and Windows users are already vested in thousands of dollars in PC hardware, there's never been a better argument or a better time for Adobe to make Linux versions.  If they had even started program by program, little by little, YEARS ago, there wouldn't have been such enormous pressure now to get all these programs to Linux.  If Microsoft keeps neglecting _basic_ quality control with Windows, we are going to end up with a computing crisis for those without the resources to switch to Mac hardware, and Adobe will HAVE to make Linux versions or go the way of Sears.  So typical of shortsighted corporations! ... View more

Not to mention all the plugin and helper software like SmartSound, Red Giant, etc. are not made for Linux either.  Sad. ... View more

Oh, so you mean if I go down to Canonical or Red Hat (which is now I-B-FREAKIN-M!) headquarters, I should look for a basement.  Got it. ... View more

You mean of course "to switch FROM Windows", correct? ... View more

Because you can't install it on regular off-the-shelf PC hardware, and therefore can't upgrade it when you want/need to.  And the latest nail in the coffin is the T2 chip, which Apple claims is for security but they've also confirmed that your OS and software won't run without it.  That combined with the fact that Apple is moving away from Intel CPU's and it's bye bye Hackintosh. ... View more

Well, I guess except for Photoshop (although there's GIMP, but I don't know how good that is), you could always look at Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve.  They offer Windows, Mac, and Linux versions (albeit just Red Hat/Cent OS, but do an Internet search, there's supposed to be a script that makes it work in Ubuntu, no problem).  Good luck! ... View more

Look, I understand your concerns as a company that the cost, effort, etc., may not be worth it when "the whole world runs on Windows and Mac", I get it (somewhat).  But as you know, things are changing, the number one operating system in the world right now is [drum roll] Android, which runs on the Linux kernel, and you already make mobile versions of Creative Cloud software on Android anyway, so (I'm not a developer, but just guessing) how hard can it be to port to a desktop operating system that uses the same Linux kernel? You might argue lack of market share/user share, but is Mac user share overall that much better?  Yet you make Mac versions of CC.  And how do you actually know the true desktop Linux market/user share anyway, since desktop Linux OS'es are free and therefore you can't track sales? Besides all this, there is this CRUCIAL concern overall in the current state of desktop operating systems.  Both the Microsoft and Apple duopoly control of the desktop MUST. BE. ENDED.  On the one hand, you have Microsoft, which has screwed up their OS for years, and most recently has made Windows totally unstable, DELETING FILES and causing all kinds of havoc which has been well reported in the news.  On the other hand, you have Apple who, if you're a Windows user and want to switch so your files aren't deleted, makes you replace your entire perfectly good hardware that you worked hard to invest in, then locks that overpriced hardware down so you can't upgrade or replace hardware when it fails - the latest example of this is their T2 chip. If Linux has such a small user base and porting to it isn't considered important enough for Adobe, why have post after post for MANY years on this site continued to this day and to this minute, and why have major companies like Blackmagic Design committed to offering Windows, Mac, AND Linux versions of DaVinci Resolve, an ADVANCED post-production suite comprising of an editor, industry-standard color corrector, effects tool, and audio tool?  Why do major companies like AJA, who make I/O hardware for post-production systems, offer Linux drivers?  Does the competition know something you don't or won't accept?  I read all the time about more and more people switching from Windows to Linux because of all the garbage Windows has been putting people through in their workflows, and with limited resources, they don't necessarily want to start all over again buying into Mac hardware.  If Adobe would port their software to Linux, you would see a TSUNAMI of new Linux users, maybe even new subscriptions.  It would bring desktop Linux to the mainstream, because you have very powerful creative software that people want to use without the OS getting in the way.  If/when Creative Cloud becomes entirely cloud-based, none of us will be having this conversation, but until that day comes, we need Adobe on _desktop_ Linux, preferably Ubuntu Linux since that's among the easiest "flavors" for creatives (and is definitely among the friendliest for accepting both FOSS and proprietary software). At least Photoshop for a pilot project to see how that sells, before trying Premiere and After Effects? ... View more

I mean, kinda sucks that you can't get the good H.264 codec onto your blu-rays, but that's the trade-off apparently. ... View more