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Any FC user swiched to Premiere Pro here?
I am evaluating FCP here in the company I work for.
With the Premiere Pro CS 5 coming up with the new Mercury playback, it really catch my attention.
Being able to use multiple layers and multiple effects without the need of rendering is really great.
What is other advantages of Premiere Pro against FC?
(I´m looking for an opinion of people that have experience in both apps, preferably)This is NOT intended to be a flame and fan boy war. 😉
I really d´like to hear some facts you experience. I need to help my boss to choose the “right” tool.
Thank you for any contribution!
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I have really always liked the audio mixninf in Premiere Pro better than FCP. You can so so much more in the application.
Per clip Effects and mixing that move with the clip and track based mixing and fx make final master a lot easier to deal with.
Sub masters in the mixer also help out a lot.
I used to hate the whole stereo/mono track thing, but now I like it a lot.
I’ll add more as I think about it.
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Oh and the Rate Stretch tool. (the X Key)
Need a clip to to be speed adjust to fit a particular gap on the timeline? Hit X and trim the clip. Keeps the same frames viewable, but the play faster or slower depending on how much you trim. Love this one.
I think you can also temporarily mute/unmute tracks without losing renders which is a lil annoying in FCP (although you can mute clips without losing renders.
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX
Younversity TV
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I’ve provided media for both, though I only use Premiere myself. As an animator, one big difference is Premiere can directly import a file sequence. One does have to render for RT playback, but at least you can work with TGA (or PNG, etc.) streams.
-Jeff
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if you do any kind of multi-camera editing….P-Pro blows away FCP there.
FCP makes it more difficult to set-up and you dont have the control that you do in P-Pro over your multicam seq.
in FCP once your multi-clip seq is setup….you cant make changes like you can in premiere….for example, if you are shooting a 3 camera shoot and its an hour long. lets say one of your batteries dies, and that camera is not recording for exactly 3min. while the operator puts in a new batt. and restarts recording. in P-Pro you can go into the nest, and select that cam cut the clip, move it the exact 3 min. resync that portion, reopen your multicam viewer and go right back to work. FCP just doesnt have the multicam thing down like p-pro.
Again just my humble opinion.
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