Complex Interview Project: AVID vs Premiere

[Brian Seegmiller]

1. FCP X, No need to use proxy for ProRes 422.
2. FCP X, Using ranged based key words and smart collections will help you organize your footage fast.
3. FCP X, What kind of clip metadata are we talking about?

Disclaimer, I have not used AVID. But, I have used PP and for me FCP X with its ranged based key wording, organizing footage is faster and much better than PP.

Is this a multi camera shoot where all four cameras are on the interviewees?
Did you record audio separately?

FCP X is a top notch multi camera editor.

You can certainly do this in PP or AVID, but I would choose FCP X.

[Tero Ahlfors]

[Brian Seegmiller] “1. FCP X, No need to use proxy for ProRes 422.”

Well you don’t absolutely have to use proxies with the other NLEs too but Avid has a pretty solid workflow for those. Premiere now has a built in proxy generator that’s pretty good as well.

Also the OP didn’t specify an OS so FCP X might not be a contender if it’s on Windows.

[Enno Jacobsen]

I’m on a Mac system (actually a PC/Hackintosh with OS X running on it). Having said that, I’d be still more interested in PP vs. Avid, and not FCPX vs. The Rest Of The World. 😉