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From FCP7 to CS 5.5
So after 2 years of waiting for the ‘awesome’ upgrade i’ve finally accepted it is time to find a Pro editing platform that doesn’t take pleasure in sodomising it’s user base.
I have the 5.5 demo of premier installed and I was wondering if there are any websites, tutorials (ideally non-paid) or books that address a long term FCP user moving to Premier.
I know how to edit, I know what I need to do, it’s just that i’m moving into a new house so i’ve got to elarn where everything is put in this one.
Many thanks.
Jules
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I’ve collected resources for that purpose here:
“Premiere Pro overview documents for Final Cut Pro and Avid Media Composer users”———————————————————————————————————
Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Technical Support for professional video software
After Effects Help & Support
Premiere Pro Help & Support
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Here is a great place to start:
https://tv.adobe.com/watch/switching-to-adobe-premiere-pro-cs5/premiere-pro-cs55-resources/
I have used FCP for over 8 years and after downloading Premiere CS 5.5 have decided to make the switch. The more I explore Premiere, the more I like it.
I have been using AE and Photoshop for years, and know that Adobe provides top notch support and great upgrades. Of course I’ll keep FCP7 on my machine, but doubt I’ll revisit it very often.
BTW, there are great deals for making the cross-grade from FCP to Premiere and/or Production Premium.
I do not work for any software company, I am simply the owner/photog/editor of a small production company. These are simply my personal opinions.
Have fun. I am.
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“An Editor’s Guide To Premiere Pro” by Robbie Carman and Rich Harrington is also a very good book. I’ve been learning things about Premiere Pro that I didn’t know in close to a year of using it regularly from that book.
Cinematographer – Editor – Motion Graphics Artist – Colorist
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cheers all, appreciate that. Good to see there are resources to make the transition less painless. Will have a look at them all and when i get a day (soon I hope) shall dive in.
Ta.
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Agreed, that book is a “how-to” on transitioning and is a great resource.
McGee Digital Media Inc.
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im a current fcp7 user learning premier pro and have a question. when i razor the end of clip A, beginning of clip B and ripple delete the razored ends of the clips the playhead doesn’t snap in between the 2 newly edited clips. i like this feature on fcp but cant get it work on premier pro.
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The playhead doesn’t function that way in PPro. Sounds like you are technically setting what would be like an IN and OUT marker range you want to remove from the edited seqeunce…
If so doing that with the extract key [‘] or button found down the bottom of the program panel which in CS5.5 does snap the playhead to the new edit point.
This is new to CS5.5 only so far. 🙂
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Jon Barrie
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Good to see that more and more people are coming onboard the Premiere Pro train. Hopefully this will encourage more pro edit studios and freelancers to embrace it and Adobe to keep ontop of weeding out any remaining bugs and keeping support top notch!
Is this the end of FCP’s supposed reign in the Pro field then? Seems like Apple have just consciously given up and happy to pass the torch over!?!
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