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Final Cut Pro vs. Premiere
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Paolo Ciccone,
Many FCP user are in the same situation as you. Many FCP users have bought the CS3 Suite for AE, Photoshop, Illistrator and Encore. They use all the programs in the CS3 package except Premiere Pro. Those that have chose to test the waters have been surprised at how good Premiere Pro is (PP CS3 is not great) and how much FCP and PP CS3 have in common. As a stand alone editor Edius and FCP may be a tad bit better than Premiere Pro but when you combine the sum of parts in the Creative Suite Premiere Pro out shines FCP and Edius should you use AE and Photoshop. It really is a matter of what will work best for you. Just because more films we cut with an Avid or FCP does mean they are the best solution for everyone. I say try the 30 day tial version of the Adobe Creaive Suite to see if you like Premiere Pro. I think you will.
This has turned out to be a good thread. There is a lot of agreement as opposed to arguing.
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[Tim Kolb] “I’ve been using AJA cards for years with PPro…not sure what you mean here… “
On a mac…not PC. That’s how this thread started…
Jeremy
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Nice Post Tim and thanks for taking the time. I would love to actually try PPro as we had to purchase it with Encore, but right now AJA doesn’t support it on the Mac with their Kona cards. If that ddriver is ever ready, I will definitely kick the tires on it.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Paul Harb,
I admit both Mac and PC user were a bit conserned about the Macromedia buy out. It seems Adobe wanted to be the first to offer an audio, video, print and web solution. It makes sense for Adobe to do this. There are many post production house in my area that do offer print, web and video solution. For many add agency that offer web, print and video solutions the Adobe CS3 Master Suite just make sense. The fact that FCP can cut film or that fact that Motion is cheaper solutuion than AE does not matter at all. It is Adobe’s ability to let the web designers share files with the print and video departments that makes the Adobe CS3 so attractive. I am glad Macromedia was bought out because Adobe is indeed doing a fine job with the products.
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Alot of great info here, and I really appreciate all of the input.
Essentially, I work doing tv production for a federal agency. Our problems are many, and it’s unfortunate that I work for, and with, some people that don’t have much idea of what they’re talking about.
We’ve been arguing for the past few months to get all of the studios across the U.S. to a standard editing platform. It looks as if it’s going to come down to Premiere vs. Final Cut. It’s been awhile since I’ve used Premiere so I might just have to download the trial.
What it looks like it boils down to is workflow. Whichever software best fits your workflow is the direction you should go in.
Hey, I really appreciate all the feedback. Thanks again!
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Caleb Armstrong,
I first met Premiere 6.0 when I bought my Matrox RT 2000/RT MAC. I tought Premiere 6.0 was a joke compared to FCP when using the Matrox cards. I sold my RT 2000 and bought the Canopus Storm. I was not happy about using Premieer 6.0 to edit. Premiere Pro is a much better program than Premiere 6.0. 5 years ago I would have opted for FCP over Premiere 6.0 but as of now I would opt for Premiere Pro CS3.
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Actually that’s not true. FCP edits strictly one format of files: QuickTime movies. It has additional support for things like PS files but when it comes to video QT is the only format. In fact FCP cannot work, at least up to 5.x, with sequences of images. Not a coincidence that the QT player makes it easy to convert from image sequence to QT movie. If you have any QT codec installed on your machine Premiere or any other editing program will be able to access it as well. ProRes is not an exclusive of FCP it’s just included in the Studio bundle. In fact Premiere, last time I checked, could access a wider series of formats.
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[Caleb Armstrong] ”
What it looks like it boils down to is workflow. Whichever software best fits your workflow is the direction you should go in.”It also boils down to your IT department too or whomever controls the computers. I’ve run into situations in the past where the production folks have said we would love to run FCP, but we are not allowed to purchase / continue to purchase Macs. We have to purchase PC’s.
Which is one reason why I would welcome a cross-platform switch for Studio 2.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR
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One thing I would say is that FCP is much stronger in the HD realm than PPro at the moment with better support for more HD codecs and workflows.
Beyond that flip a coin, they both have their strengths and weaknesses in equal measure.
Steve Connor
Adrenalin TelevisionHave you tried “Search Posts”? Enlightenment may be there.
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Walter
FCP on a PC?
I think the best option would be to have OS X run on generic PC hardware.
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