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Plazer

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Hello all!

So I have been looking at taking advantage of Adobes awesome savings! I was a FCS3 user and am now moving onto something else as FCPX isn't my cup of tea. Now I know many may just recommend continuing to use FCP7 but I am sick of transcodeing as well as I really could use photoshop as I love stills as well.

Now I am a business, only a sole preprioter but a business no less. My question is what can and cant I do with my copy of production premium? I mean I am my only employee so I am not getting a volume license and I only have two machines a desktop and laptop so I know that's covered. But is the version you buy for $850 on sale ok for professional use? Meaning can it be use commercially?

Also, to those that have been doing this a while, if I "write off" my copy of the software, does it mean I have to only use it for corperate work etc, or what if I want to work on short films for myself? For example, if I self fund a film for myself for the sake of putting it into film festivals etc. can I use the Abode suite that's on sale? If I don't claim it as a company expense can I just do what I please with it?

Just curious, let me know what the stipulations are.

Cheers!
 
You can edit whatever you like on it. It follows the same rules every editor does. There used to be some confusion regarding use of certain codecs, but even that's cleared up now. This is a professional editing suite. If you're really concerned you need to read through the contracts you agree to when installing.
 
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Plazer said:
Hello all!

So I have been looking at taking advantage of Adobes awesome savings! I was a FCS3 user and am now moving onto something else as FCPX isn't my cup of tea. Now I know many may just recommend continuing to use FCP7 but I am sick of transcodeing as well as I really could use photoshop as I love stills as well.

Now I am a business, only a sole preprioter but a business no less. My question is what can and cant I do with my copy of production premium? I mean I am my only employee so I am not getting a volume license and I only have two machines a desktop and laptop so I know that's covered. But is the version you buy for $850 on sale ok for professional use? Meaning can it be use commercially?

Also, to those that have been doing this a while, if I "write off" my copy of the software, does it mean I have to only use it for corperate work etc, or what if I want to work on short films for myself? For example, if I self fund a film for myself for the sake of putting it into film festivals etc. can I use the Abode suite that's on sale? If I don't claim it as a company expense can I just do what I please with it?

Just curious, let me know what the stipulations are.

Cheers!
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You are asking several different questions. On the one hand I believe the Adobe license allows for 'two authorized' computers. I don't know if there are checks for 'simultaneous use', the idea of the two authorizations is to have a base system, and a mobile system. The only restriction on 'commercial' vs 'non-commercial' usage on a package, is when one buys an 'educational' discount package. I think the license does 'restrict' use to 'non-commercial' use. Again don't know how Adobe could audit that.

The other question is a tax question, and as I read the tax law is if the asset is 'totally used for the business', then 100% write off. You would need more actual real live tax accounting advice for 'shared' use of such things as 'software'... and I'm sure such an accountant would suggest 'just by a separate package for personal use'...

As for the general 'personal filmmaking'... let me ask you a question... if at a fest, you met a distributor who picked up short films for distribution compilations, and offered, say, $100 for your film... would you take the $100... (heck how about $1...)... if the answer is yes... then I'd think about the 'business' of filmmaking... While there may be some tax issues about exactly when you expense out on a 'film'... such as it took $10k to make the thing, and you would only be able to expense out out costs at the time of the 'sale'... you have at least a business structure to handle this.
 
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