Looking through a Seagate Drive at Lightroom
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Looking through a Seagate Drive at Lightroom

Byrichard

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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GMdesk as a fun Air App

Byrichard

Gmail, google Calendar and google maps are part of our daily workflow. As a result of this we have them running in two or three tabs at all times. Switching between tabs within a browser can be time consuming but not between applications. That’s where Adobe Air and GMDesk come in.
Adobe Air is a multiplatform solution to make running the same app on multiple machines easy. GMDesk is an application that allows you to use the applications I have mentioned above easily. Work in your web browser, alt tab and you’re in GMdesk.

Those are the short cut keys to save on time when switching from one google app to another.

It’s an interesting idea and we should be seeing many more applications such as this in the near future.

Adobe and Digital Rights Managment.

Byrichard

Digital rights managment is a sore point for a lot of users. Anyone with more than one laptop dislikes how their playlists can’t be synchronised across more than one machine without a little ingenuity. Adobe offers DRM content control for DRM

Media control of content is provided by the Adobe Flash Media Rights Management Server, which sets user access limits – even after a file is downloaded. Adobe’s server integrates with Adobe AIR, which allows putting applications on a device and could challenge both Sun Java and Microsoft for user interaction on multiple platforms.

I hope that what this means is a greater flexibility for the distribution and sharing of media content once the content is bought. Does this mean that as new companies and devices are used that we will find new devices being supported. Does it mean that individuals with full software licenses will be able to select restrictions of the content the content producers are generating rather than both Microsoft and Apple?

This is related to the discussion about iDRM  that I followed a few months ago in London. It will be interesting to see how this changes the rules