Various Amazon worlwide stores have posted pricing info and box art for the upcoming Adobe CS3 product suites that will be officially announced tomorrow. Depending on where you look, both upgrade and ‘upsell’ pricing is present alongside the full retail licenses. I hope that the Adobe store will offer a variety of upgrade paths as many of us own both a collection of Adobe software and also Macromedia Studio 8.
Fractured Vision Media is licensed with both Studio 8 and the CS2 Production Studio Bundle- so we pretty well have the CS2 version of the new “CS3 Master Collection” being offered. So will we be able to upgrade from both collections collectively? Or will we be gouged completely even in consideration of my prior investment?
On a related note: it’s upsetting to see the fabulous Audition replaced by SoundBooth. I haven’t given the SoundBooth beta a full testing- but it is lacking many of the features we use to master audio tracks. Really seems like a step backward for audio professionals. :(
Oh, and in regard to my prior rant about splitting product versions: nice to see that there is no mention of “Flash CS3 Standard” anywhere.
EDIT: Nice. With Macromedia Studio and Adobe Production Studio the price is $1,399.00. Since Master Collection will not ship till July, you also have the option to snag a smaller collection now and upgrade from that later for the difference. I think we may just go with Web Premium for now- The audio/video tools in Master Collection can wait 18 months…