I took the very expensive plunge and ordered Adobe CS Production Premium today, the bundle that includes Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and Flash. It has Premier and Soundbooth as well, though I don't intend to use those. It finally ships in about a week, even though the other editions have been out for awhile. This is the only bundle that has After Effects, which I haven't used a lot since v5.5 or something, but it's definitely nice to have. I haven't bought new versions of Adobe products in about three years, but despite the ouch, they're certainly worth it, and I don't have Mac versions.

For now, I'm going to hold off buying Final Cut Studio 2. Perhaps if I actually cut and release something, I'll consider it, but I'll put that off for awhile. It's not as expensive as the Adobe stuff, but it does have a new version of compressor that uses multiple CPU cores, and a new app called Color that fascinates me. I could really screw up some video with that!

I finally got around to loading the video I shot on the Maverick media day, so it's fun to look at that and get it into Final Cut. I obviously don't use it enough, because I always forget what the hell the keyboard shortcuts are! I did plug in my Shuttle Xpress controller though, so it feels like tape. Good times.