Cool edit bought out by Adobe!

[T-RAVE]

http://www.syntrillium.com/news/article.html?91

Cakewalk...the last man standing? Or is Macromedia on the way!

[scottboyher]

I hope Adobe don't shut Cool Edit down.

[rats]

Adobe?
Maybe it won't be to bad.

[demensia]

I got no gripes with Adobe.

[scottboyher]

I have a bad feeling that Adobe means well and has good intentions but inevitably they will sit Cool Edit on the back burner never to return. I think this will be a bad thing in the long run. The cost of the software is one of the main selling points and I don't think we will ever see Cool Edit at the price it is currently. Sad day.

[Chrisjob]

Originally posted by scottboyher
I have a bad feeling that Adobe means well and has good intentions but inevitably they will sit Cool Edit on the back burner never to return. I think this will be a bad thing in the long run. The cost of the software is one of the main selling points and I don't think we will ever see Cool Edit at the price it is currently. Sad day.

No doubt. Adobe has many more flagship products to be concerned about, and while I'm sure Syntrillium will continue to be the main developers of CEP, Adobe's concern will remain with its visual software.

I don't think, sadly, that Adobe has ever been given any kind of value or smart buy award, and Cool Edit 2.5 or 3.09 or whatever will most likely cost much closer to $500 than any user would like

[dobro]

You might be right about the pricing issue, but I don't think Cool's gonna be put on a back burner. David Johnson (who wrote Cool Edit 1.2) just announced on the Syntrillium site that he's still working on developing Cool. They're talking about the future, and that's hopeful. But maybe the next version will be more expensive. It'd be tough to make it much cheaper.

[kev99sl]

Quite frankly, I'd hope they'd be smart enough to know that if they jack up the price too much, someone will come along and create a product that people like me will be just as happy with for half the price. Sure, some people will be brand-loyal enough to continue regardless of the price, but I'd guess that price is at least a good part of why most Cool Edit users stick with it.

I'm not slighting Cool Edit's capabilities, I'm just saying that if it gets to the point that they're all priced the same my motivation will very quickly become what can give me the most for my money: at $250 it's Cool Edit hands down; at $500, I can't imagine that they'd put in enough additional functionality in the next version to steer me away from some of the other available products.

[Jim Y]

Interesting, and thanks for the news.
Adobe make mac software too don't they? Maybe CEP will cross to the Mac at last?
One thing Syntrillium never seemed to have the courage to do was to market a boxed CE2000. There are loads of people who turn their noses up at the thought of downloaded shareware. Maybe Adobe will market this properly, at the right price and cross platform too. I find it remarkable that the most intuitive 2 track editor has never been readily available in stores.

[Audio_Drivel]

I hope they dont shit all over the interface. . look at recent Photoshops, layers and layers of ick thrown all over the place. . .

[MemoGtr]

sad, but true

adobe is making some mistakes on their programs interface. hope that doesnt happen to cool edit

[Chris Shaeffer]

I don't see why Adobe would shelve Coll Edit- they don't have a competing multitrack audio program that I know of.

Maybe they are planning to integrate some of CE's audio capbilities into their movie making software? That would be cool! Maybe they just want to expand their multimedia market into audio, which they haven't really done, yet.

[dobro]

Really? Is Adobe into movie-making software? Damn, I'd love to get my hands on a DVD video system. Two channels of high-res sound to go along with everything that video offers. And if Cool supplied the audio portion, that would be twice as sweet.

[Chris Shaeffer]

Adobe Premiere is frequently counted among the top few programs for video editing- along with Adobe Aftereffects for special effects.

If we see cool edit code in a video program it will probably go into Premiere.

-C

[Polaris20]

Originally posted by Chris Shaeffer
I don't see why Adobe would shelve Coll Edit- they don't have a competing multitrack audio program that I know of.

Maybe they are planning to integrate some of CE's audio capbilities into their movie making software? That would be cool! Maybe they just want to expand their multimedia market into audio, which they haven't really done, yet.

That's pretty much why they bought it, I bet. With Pinnacle buying Steinberg, Adobe wanted an audio editor for themselves, to be packaged with their video editor.

I still would love to try CEP, but they don't seem to have a demo download.

But the fact that it opens Acidized loops, has it's own looping stuff, and is a multitracker, it sounds like everything I would be looking for in an app.

[dobro]

I think you can download it from this page:

http://www.syntrillium.com/download/download.html?37

If I'm not mistaken, it lets you play with everything but not save it.

Syntrillium owes me one now.

[Polaris20]

ok, I guess I am an idiot who can't find stuff!

Thanks, I can't wait to play with it.