• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Coming back to video after being away for a number of years.

  Posted by David Kingma on June 14, 2012 at 5:23 pm

  Hi All.

  My first post here at Creative Cow and i’m looking for a little direction / advice.

  After being away from video editing for a number of years, I am now looking to add it to my product offerings. Being a full time photographer I have Canon DSLR options that I can use for shooting HD. I also still have a low hours DVX100 on my shelf.

  My question is about editing software. I used nothing buy FCP back in the day and loved it. However, my Mac is just old enough to not handle HD editing. I do however have a new PC rig that runs the Premier Pro trial with ease. I have two options..

  1. Buy a new PC and get acquainted with FCPX

  or

  2. Buy Premier and get familiar with a new editing tool.

  I also have to consider that I need to learn the in’s and out’s of editing in the HD world and the possible workflow processes.. That being said i’m curious to what the pro’s and con’s may be to going with Premier coming from an old FCP environment.

  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

  ~ Dave

  David Kingma replied 14 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Vince Becquiot

  June 14, 2012 at 10:38 pm

  Hi David,

  I think, in asking this question in a Premiere forum, you will obviously get favorable Premiere answers.

  Whichever route you choose, your experience with FCP will be of little use, FCP X is a vastly different editing application as well.

  So my answer is an big “Premiere”, but again that’s the software we use and love for the most part.

  As the industry shifts away from FCP, you will not be able to import Premiere project in FCP, yet you can import FCP projects into Premiere, so that’s quite a big advantage if a client needs you to work on an existing edit.

  As far the OS, we are now on Macs, but I think both Windows and MAC have their strong point.

  My take on that is: Mac much more expensive, but likely more stable in the long run. Adobe only has to test on a few configurations for the MAC, vs 1000’s for the PC.

  I hope I was objective enough 🙂

  Vince Becquiot

  Kaptis Studios
  San Francisco – Bay Area
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  David Kingma

  June 15, 2012 at 2:44 pm

  Vince – Thanks for the reply. I’ve found the Trial version of Premier quite enjoyable and now you’ve got me thinking about a third option.. A new Mac running Premier.

  Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it.

  ~ Dave

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