3/23/2023 0 Comments Propresenter 7 upgrade cost![]() I had nothing but trouble with it using my (former) new MacBook Pro running Mojave. If I’m not dealing with those bugs now, I don’t want potential new ones unless there’s a feature I can really use.įor example, I’ve noticed that newer versions of Mac OS X have really jacked up wired networking. And since I’ve never seen an update that doesn’t fix bugs introduced in the last “bug fix”, it seems each update introduces other bugs that will then be fixed in the next release. Sometimes an update will fix a bug I’ve never experienced. ![]() If there isn’t a really compelling reason to update the software or firmware, I don’t do it. I always read over the feature upgrades or bug fixes in software updates on my production machines. This is a great way to take an entire system off line if you’re not careful. Or maybe the drivers simply haven’t caught up yet. I’ve seen this with video and audio interfaces. It’s even worse when you upgrade and then discover your hardware no longer works with the new software. Three hours later, you’re finally back in business right about the time the pastor is starting his message… Worse, once you update Y, you discover the drivers for hardware Z no longer work. Then on Sunday you show up and find out that Software Y now needs to be updated, and you need it for the weekend. You play around with new features of X and it’s great. So, you update the OS and X turns out to be super snazzy. No problem, you think, it’s time to do that anyway. You might, for example, find that to upgrade to the latest and greatest version of software X that you need to update the OS. Sometimes it’s not even the software in question that causes the problem. ![]() Over the years, I’ve had updates or “upgrades” cause more problems than they solved-especially when there weren’t problems in the first place. I generally take the approach to software updates that if what I’m using isn’t broken, I don’t try to “fix” it. If you break something on Wednesday, you have all day Thursday to get something new moving your way and there’s a good chance you can have something delivered Friday or maybe even Saturday. We had missed the shipping cutoff for the day and it wasn’t going out until Monday. Well, it would have been overnight except I found myself with bricked hardware on Friday afternoon. I had to have new hardware overnighted to get it working. Why? Well, one time I installed firmware and it bricked the hardware. If I ran out of time, I did not do it on Thursday, nor Friday. That was the last day I would attempt software or firmware updates. I personally put Wednesday as my hard stop for updates. The last thing you want to be doing during what was supposed to be soundcheck is tracking down new drivers and updates so the teleprompter…er… confidence monitor will work. You never know when an upgrade won’t work, or will break something else. Windows 10 can’t install its next group of productivity enhancing features providing unparalleled levels of productivity if it can’t talk to the servers. In fact, it’s a good argument for production machines being on their own network, air-gapped to the outside worlds. I turn off all automatic updates on all my production machines and make sure they are not even checking on Saturday or Sunday. The first rule for me of upgrading is to never, no not ever upgrade on the weekend. Having done my fair share of it, I thought I would share some observations and ideas on what I consider best practices. On the bookFace groups I follow, I often see questions about upgrading software stuff. It’s simply a catalyst for me thinking about upgrades in general. I have no experience with it and no particular thoughts about it one way or another. Now, this article isn’t about ProPresenter per se. With the recent release of ProPresenter 7, the internets are all abuzz with discussions about upgrading software. The time of year when a young tech directors thoughts turn to…software upgrades.
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