Final Cut Studio - student price question

[isethx]

So FCS is $999 dollars and the student version is $899 dollars- and as far as i know you can NOT upgrade if you buy the academic version... correct me if I'm wrong.

So why would anyone buy the academic version or this program??

I thought the old FCS was $1,300 or so, and the student version $600, so that makes sense.

I'm going to buy soon... so any reason i SHOULD but the academic version?

 

[MacFanUK]

Sounds like you're getting ripped off. The Student version in the UK is £249 compared to the full version which is £799

 

[Doctor Q]

Reasons to buy the full version:

• You aren't a student.
• You expect to upgrade when future versions come out and buying a whole new academic version next time will cost more than paying $300 later to upgrade.
• Somebody else is paying for it.
• The Academic version has a license restriction that applies to your situation. However, from what I've read, there's nothing different except that you must be a qualifying student. In other words, there's no restriction on what you can do with the software, even using it for commercial work.

Reasons to buy the student version:

• You're a student with no plans to upgrade the software to future versions, so you might as well save $.
• You're a student who might upgrade, but saving $ now is more important to you (a starving student).