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Final Cut Pro vs Adobe Premiere?
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Just adding more coal to the fire, but as everyone sates:
If you want to work professionally (full time, nothing else but editing), learn FCP and Avid. That’s it. You won’t NEED anything else.
If you want to know the shows that I worked on using those programs, they include:
The Apprentice
The Contender
Prison Break
Deadwood
EntourageThe list goes on; needless to say, there’s not a lot of broadcast shows working out of PPro.
“Roto is not a skill, it’s a job.”
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Just a couple of specific notes on the differences between the two. I own both, but use FCP daily and Premiere only occasionally. FCP is on a dual-dual core Mac Pro and Premiere on a dual-dual core Xeon PC, so the platforms are very similar.
FCP renders faster, and Premiere has some RAM issues right now that supposedly will be fixed soon. Also, even though the integration between Premiere and After Effects is better than FCP and AE, it takes longer to render these sections in Premiere than if you step out to After Effects and render there, which negates some of that benefit.
On the plus side for Premiere, if you have to deal with MXF files from P2 cameras, the Raylight plug-in allows you to do so with more flexibility than in FCP. You can just import individual MXF files without having to have all the supporting files FCP looks for when importing P2.
FCP definitely has far greater market acceptance right now than Premiere, but I’m really glad that Adobe is putting in some effort on this as the competition is a good thing for users on both sides.
Joe Murray
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Just a couple of specific notes on the differences between the two. I own both, but use FCP daily and Premiere only occasionally. FCP is on a dual-dual core Mac Pro and Premiere on a dual-dual core Xeon PC, so the platforms are very similar.
FCP renders faster, and Premiere has some RAM issues right now that supposedly will be fixed soon. Also, even though the integration between Premiere and After Effects is better than FCP and AE, it takes longer to render these sections in Premiere than if you step out to After Effects and render there, which negates some of that benefit.
On the plus side for Premiere, if you have to deal with MXF files from P2 cameras, the Raylight plug-in allows you to do so with more flexibility than in FCP. You can just import individual MXF files without having to have all the supporting files FCP looks for when importing P2.
FCP definitely has far greater market acceptance right now than Premiere, but I’m really glad that Adobe is putting in some effort on this as the competition is a good thing for users on both sides.
Joe Murray
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[Chris Lupetti] “Obviously I would want to go with the 17 inch monitor display.”
Well, others have spoken to the advantages of a tower, but if portability is what you’re after, I find the 17″ machines to be rather big and heavy. I know people who love them, but for me a 15″ laptop was the way to go. (Granted, I do have a tower at the office too.)
You’re not limited to the 15″ screen at home or office, because you can drive a second monitor very well. My PB 15″ with 128MB of VRAM drives a 24″ Dell LCD, no problem. That gives me 39″ of screen real estate. On the road, you’ll have a lighter, smaller package to lug around.
Regards,
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Whatever happened to Adobe bringing their product back to Apple? This thread was in 2007, and I haven’t heard of this happening.
I prefer FCP. I tried a free trial of Adobe. And I’m not knocking the quality of the work it could turn out, but the interface seemed really non-user friendly. And I know that’s only because I’m used to FCP. I’m sure FCP looks non-user friendly to Adobe users.
But I do like a lot of the filters and functions in Adobe that I’m only told about by one of my friends who uses it. If Apple brought Adobe back on board, I was stick with FCP but definitely get Adobe for my system too. Have both to choose between sort of like messing with FCP and Imovie.
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[Vincent Strader] “Whatever happened to Adobe bringing their product back to Apple? This thread was in 2007, and I haven’t heard of this happening. “
Um, it happened two years ago.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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