avid vs final cut pro

[Chris Bové]

. . . I’m curious why the Cow’s FCP thread has so many people posting tech q’s.

I’m really curious.

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[Dan L.]

What are you talking about rendering?

The whole point of Mojo is that you don’t need to render to output with DV25

Best,

Dan

[William Busby]

wtf? is there an echo here? 😀

[Dom Silverio]

I have access to both in a daily basis, FCP/G5 definetly renders slower than Avid/xw8000.

[Judita]

Wildmangoose, I don’t see why you didn’t compare Avid to other PC based software, if a PC is what you want to edit on.

But otherwise, what Pixel Monkey said is correct. If you prefer FCP that is fine. I don’t see a question here.

[Dan Mockensturm]

Wildman,
I hear you were at NAB…

But, I don’t believe you. Why don’t you talk a little bit more about what “tests” you performed to come to your conclusions?

I have access to both FCP and Avid, and I’d like to verify your findings.

Mofo

[Stevejr]

I went to NAB on Monday. I spent some time at AVID even more time their then at apple. I had the lady that was helping me do a test for me to see how fast it renders. I was not impressed. But I don’t want to go with Mac. I wish Express Pro was better for AVID. Avids high end stuff is awesome.

[Stevejr]

are you talking about avid express pro. If you are can you explain more in regards to the differences between the two when is comes to rendering. Also which is faster on 3d rendering.

[Les Kaye]

We’re changing over from Adrenaline HDs for the same reason…

[Dom Silverio]

What to say about rendering? Hard to compare when they are 2 different platforms and applications.

XPro renders better with 3D because it has 3D features. FCP does not really. Also, there are better 3D cards on the PC side.