FCP X FAQ-Slap in the Face?

[David Bankston]

Agreed! I’m off to Premiere.

[J Hussar]

I saw what Walter did showing the features of Premiere, I didn’t realize it was as good as it was. I will hang for a bit and hope Apple sees the error of Randy’s ways, but if Apple maintains their arrogance, that might be where I’ll go as well.

[Timothy Auld]

I think the slap came last week. This is just a re-hashing of the PR they’ve been trying to flog
for the last few days.

bigpine

[Dan Davis]

I downloaded the trial version of Premiere (very impressed) and if nothing changes
very soon It’s mine!

I think Adobe are loving this for all the right reasons…because they want to be number one.
And they could be.

Danny.

[Paul Jay]

Premiere for Mac does native MXF and native RED for a long time.
Now all they have to do is make the AJA/BMD/Matrox stuff work just as good as with FCP.
Ive tested the AJA io express with CS5.5 but it doesnt work as it should. But im sure it will soon.

[Chris Borjis]

agreed.

When Adobe makes nice with AJA & Blackmagic (like fcp) I’m in.

[Andrae Palmer]

Yes… monitoring is the only big issue that needs to be resolved.

Davinci Resolve Mac 7.1:
Mac Pro 12-Core
24GB (six 4GB) memory
ATI Radeon HD 5770 and NVIDIA Quadro 4000
Blackmagic Decklink Extreme 3D+

[Dan Davis]

And Matrox PLEASE!

Danny.

[Lucas Merino]

I know saying this on this thread is a needle in a haystack, but as a long time Premiere user, I want to tell people that it runs much better on Windows.

… and this is in no way simply being anti-apple for anti-apple sake. In my experience it has just run so much better whether scrubbing on the timeline or loading files, etc.

The one caveat that I think people will realize is that there is no built in “working codec” similar to Prores or Avid DNxHD. You can look at Cineform as a 3rd party solution, but IMHO if Adobe released some sort of Prores type codec (or built in Cineform by default) it would be a really fantastic tool. I think they choose to not include this because they want to be codec agnostic in a way, but the problem is they have no good codec to output when you project is finished. You have a choice between web codecs like h.264, or totally uncompressed… there is no good middle ground.

[Chris Borjis]

[Lucas Merino] “I want to tell people that it runs much better on Windows.”

Thanks Lucas, the unfortunate aspect is a lot of us are heavily vested in the mac hardware we have and doing a 180 swap into pc land would be painful.

I’m hoping the release of CS6 will address that.