Recently I got a new drive and as I registered it I saw that I could play with lightroom for free for a month. For free, after spending more than ten francs on a hard drive. I have no intention of using Lightroom after the one month Adobe trial period for a simple reason. Paying 10 CHF per month, when you pay for one app, exceptionally, is affordable. Paying 10-20 CHF per app per month becomes exhorbitant.
What did catch my interest is that there is a one terabyte tier for data storage in the cloud. The issue I have with this plan is that it’s 149 CHF per year, when two terabytes with Infomaniak is 67 CHF per year, and 100 CHF per year with Google Photos. That’s 49 CHF more than Google and 80+CHF more than Kdrive. That difference in price doesn’t justify Lightroom’s added functionality.
## No Light Room Equivalent for Video
I looked at the Adobe Creative Suite Apps. There is no Media Asset Management tool for video. You have lightroom, for photos. There is a stock footage app but a stock footage app is not a personal Digital Asset Management tool. That’s a nice that Adobe should get into, as it is guaranteed that users of the Adobe Creative Suite needd a solution for photos, and videos.
### Video is Supported
Video is supported. You can’t search by videos and there is no mention of video except when you look through assets.
## And Finally
I do not plan to be seduced by Adobe Lightroom or other tools. We have plenty of free or open source solutions to pick from. I have Final Cut Pro Studio, Final Cut Pro X, DaVinci Resolve and KDEnlive to play with for video editing, and Immich and PhotoPrism as Lightroom equivalent tools.
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