J M Smith

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Look at what just happened with Filmora and them cancelling their Lifetime Licenses. The outcry was so large that they were forced to roll back the cash grab…

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• J M Smith
• January 08, 2023 02:24
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A couple of random thoughts 1. With regard to user percentages and the recent poll on Paul’s youtube channel, CO is clearly only comparing V23 perpetual to subscription licensees, disingenuous at b...

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• J M Smith
• December 24, 2022 16:00
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Alessio I did the same thing with my credit card provider, they closed the case within about 3 days and made the refund permanent.  I used the same argument, a licensing change after and extended m...

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• J M Smith
• December 22, 2022 14:28
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Paul, I think that you will find in a production environment that they (people and companies) are loath to upgrade to the latest version of editing software.  Too many times the update breaks somet...

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• J M Smith
• December 22, 2022 04:34
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CO is now heavily moderating the posts both here and on FB...  There are several FB pages that a discussing the matter, Paul Reiffer's page for one.

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• J M Smith
• December 15, 2022 00:08
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Steve, It sure looks like an interesting tool doesn't it... Since I am now trialing LR and DxO... I have downloaded the trial of Avalanche and going to see how well it converts (100 Images, limit t...

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• J M Smith
• December 09, 2022 18:33
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Barry, Since I am a Mac user, I didn't look, after your comment I went back to the site and could not specifically see a windows version.  I apologize for that.  Maybe shoot them an email and let u...

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• J M Smith
• December 09, 2022 18:22
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Here is the PetaPixel article entitled: Capture One Lays Off Staff Amid a ‘Significant’ Internal Restructure https://petapixel.com/2024/01/30/capture-one-lays-off-staff-amid-a-significant-internal-...

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• J M Smith
• January 30, 2024 20:49
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@... The US pricing is $10.44, this reeks of desperation.  I suspect that their customer base didn't just accept the new pricing scheme, and a greater number of COP users than expected, moved on to...

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• J M Smith
• October 10, 2023 13:36
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Carsten Schlipf I did the math and posted here several months ago based on a number of data points (there is apparently no way to search for the post). In essence there are about 250,000 C1P users ...

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• J M Smith
• September 18, 2023 12:50
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