Comment Re:Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth... (Score 2) 198
Eh? Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 (when I bought it) was priced around AUD$2500 retail - lets not talk about the stupid markup we have to pay, here in Oz. My daughter bought it for me on educational pricing for about AUD$450.
For that I got Premiere Pro, Photoshop, After Effects, Audition, Illustrator, OnLocation, Encore, etc, plus add-on tools like Media Encoder, and a bunch of user content such as templates. Also access to Adobe user forums (worth it at twice the price).
I also got a 32-bit version of PPro 4 - "to assist with transition to a 64-bit workflow", and because I bought it in the grace period after they'd announced CS6, I got a free upgrade to CS6. Each version had its own serial number - so I'm licenced for PPro on 3 machines, which is very helpful when I can have a laptop on set to ingest and test footage.
If you're clever, you never have to pay full retail price for licenced software. The Adobe suite has more than paid for itself.
Oh, you're trolling. Carry on.