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Final Cut Pro vs Adobe Premiere?
Hello group,
How does Adobe Premiere hold up in comparison to Final Cut Pro?
I have Adobe Premiere but am thinking about purchasing an Apple to start using Final Cut Pro.Any help would greatly be appreciated.
Thank you.
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These are always loaded questions and it’s difficult to compare two products that essentially do the same thing.
Why don’t you tell us what you don’t like about Premiere that’s making you consider the switch and we can tell you how FCP handles the same functions.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
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Thanks for the response. I have some experience using Final Cut Pro. Although I do have Adobe Premiere, I am not that familiar with it. I know that Final Cut Pro is becoming the industry standard in video editing. I guess I should have restated my question: am I just as marketable using Adobe Premiere as I would be using Final Cut Pro?
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[Chris Lupetti] “am I just as marketable using Adobe Premiere as I would be using Final Cut Pro?”
Ah, if that’s the question, I would honestly say you are more marketable in today’s market using Final Cut Pro.
However, Adobe is bringing Premiere back to the Mac, they made a major splash at NAB with their new Creative Suite 3 and the integration between all their apps is actually tighter than Final Cut Studio 2.
So today, you’re more marketable with FCP and honestly I think you will be more marketable next year with FCP. But Adobe is poised to make a run at Studio and it will interesting to see how their new suite plays out over the next few years.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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If you have the luxury of learning both, take advantage of it. Knowing both makes you the most marketable. However, I would stick to just learning the edit programs first before you get into the rest of the programs in the suites. It’s tough to stay fresh on both, unless you are constantly using them. Take into consideration if you have a staff position, or freelance. Call any potentional clients in your area and do a survey of who has what. That may be where your answer lies.
Steve Radley
Digitec
Orlando, FL
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As someone who teaches FCP and film making classes at a film school, and who also helps place people into jobs in the film and broadcast industries, I can tell you that PPro has a long way to go before becoming as popular in those industries. Cinema Tools, for one, is the strongest point with FCP, along with other aspects that PPro isn’t up to yet. Color by itself puts FCP far ahead of Adobe’s package right out of the box. The local film/broadcast folks who I consult for feel that Adobe’s “integration” (which is overhyped) is the least of their conserns with an NLE. FCP’s superior compositing is more important to them, it’s extensive XML tools, etc, all that, from what they tell me, matters more.
PPro is a great NLE, and Adobe’s new package is nice. But just cause it’ll be on a Mac doesn’t make it any more appealing to film and broadcast studios.
In the wedding & event videography field, PPro is far more widely used than FCP, it fits that type of work very well. In Film/Broadcast, FCP is so far ahead of Adobe, and with Final Cut Server coming out, it’ll be even further ahead. We get people taking our FCP classes in our film school who are trying to get actual jobs, and are experienced with Avid, PPro, etc, but the jobs they are applying for use FCP. So they’re all rushing to learn it.
I’m not bashing, just stating the facts of the industry. FCP is just to widely used now. Most of the Avid studios here in Hollywood south switched from Avid to FCP after Katrina, and report at this point they wish they’d made the change sooner.
If you want to make a career out of editing, learn FCP and Avid, leave the rest to the wedding videographers (I did weddings for a few years way back when, I know first hand what it takes).
– Apple Certified Trainer
– Tutorials at http://www.bbalser.com
– South Louisiana FCP Users Group
– NOVAC Digital Filmmakers Institute
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Thanks for the feedback.
One more question, if you don’t mind. I need a new Apple computer. I am thinking about purchasing an Apple MacBook. Obviously I would want to go with the 17 inch monitor display. Can anyone recommend what specs I should get so FCP will run its smoothest? I’m also thinking about getting Maya put on.
Thanks again.
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MacBook Pro, with as much RAM as you can cram into it, a Firwire card for the card slot (you can’t capture from tape without it), and an external Firewire 800 drive for your media, you’l be good to go.
The MacBook won’t work. The Intel GMA 950 graphics processor in it won’t support Motion nor the new Color application. I’d stay far away from a MacBook for Final Cut Studio 2.
And I question how well the new Color application will run even on MacBook Pros.
– Apple Certified Trainer
– Tutorials at http://www.bbalser.com
– South Louisiana FCP Users Group
– NOVAC Digital Filmmakers Institute
– Event DV magazine -
[Chris Lupetti] “I am thinking about purchasing an Apple MacBook. Obviously I would want to go with the 17 inch monitor display.”
Ok, the MacBook only comes in a 13″ size and is a consumer based machine. Since you mentioned a 17″ display, you must be talking about the MacBook Pro.
[Chris Lupetti] “Can anyone recommend what specs I should get so FCP will run its smoothest? I’m also thinking about getting Maya put on.”
As much RAM as you can, there’s no options to enhance the graphics card so what you get is what you get. FCP will never run as well on a laptop as it does on a desktop, especially when it comes to rendering speeds, but it will run quite good, especially when the new FCP 6 comes out.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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Thanks everyone.
So I may be better of getting an Apple desktop?
Sure is costly. But if it’s the best option I should consider it.Thanks again.
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The desktop would be the way to go if you don’t need the portability. Being able to install a nice graphics card, capture card, more RAM, internal array, I think it is a compelling reason to go that way.
I too made the switch from Premiere to FCP and it was a very good move for me. Like you, I needed to make myself more “marketable”. There were some other factors too but all in all it has been a very smooth transition. PPro and FCP are probably more similar than they are different. For me switching over was no big deal. I run a MacPro workstation with the AJA LHe and I also have a MacBook Pro (which I dual boot into XP for the rare occasion I NEED to use PPro)
Good Luck!
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