Industry Standard?

[Vince Becquiot]

If you want the software the most used in the industry, then go for FCP. Premiere will cause you issues if you are collaborating with FCP users (lots of issues).

However, if you want the best software suite on the market today, Adobe is the one you’ll want.

Things are a little more in the grey area now since Adobe is now available on the Mac, sadly without OnLocation.

We’ll have to see how this develops in the next year, after some FCP users get to experience Premiere instead of putting it down without ever laying an eye on it…

Vince

[Marc Brak]

I’m about to go from Adobe to FCP for the same reason – industry standard. But i’m surprised to hear that Adobe is actually better?

Could you explain what makes Premiere better than FCP?

[Mike Smith]

You might also want to look at the range of offerings from Avid.

[Tim Kolb]

[marcbrak] “I’m about to go from Adobe to FCP for the same reason – industry standard. But i’m surprised to hear that Adobe is actually better?”

I think Vincent was referring to the entire Production Studio software suite…not necessarily PPro itself. However, as a PPro user, i do agree that most seem to dismiss PPro without ever launching it, particularly up to this point, Mac users because they couldn’t use it. Interestingly enough, my conversations at tradeshows lead me to believe that there are more users who are dedicated to the Mac, but not necessarily to FCP, than most of us might have assumed…time will tell.

I’ve used both PPro and FCP…there are workflows when one trumps the other…there is a feature or three that throw the equation this way or that…if you choose to make the case for one over the other, either direction is possible if you know where to narrowly focus your comparisons. Overall I find them functionally to be 6 of one, a half-dozen of the other. the key with Adobe is the feature set of the rest of the bundle vs the Apple bundle is significantly broader. the only area where Apple could be said to actually be delivering more capability than the Adobe bundle is with color correction now that they’ve purchased Final Touch.

I did find it interesting to note that 3 years ago…possibly 4 at NAB (the year of the real HD post ‘debutante ball”), I was on the show floor demo’ing and we counted the HD solutions on the floor from each camp…PPro had the most options on the floor for HD configurations of anybody. With AJA, Black Magic, BlueFish, CineForm, Matrox, et al, Adobe had more HD systems in the show operating in more configurations than either of the other two “A”s…maybe more than both combined.

Avid remains the leader in networked/shared asset workgroups, but I do think that the toolset has been allowed to stagnate for so long that Avid will remain in catch up going after the small, by necessity more versatile shops for some time to come, if not forever. The huge operations that are deeply invested in Avid will most likely require something rather Earth-shatteringly obvious in the way of advantages to change out…if Apple gets their networks and shared asset user environments to the point where they can legitimately challenge Avid, i think Avid will probably slide beneath the surface. This last huge number of layoffs that Avid had were in principle from the NLE side of things accordig to the press releases at the time.

Standardization is probably in FCP’s camp, at least for the moment…(who knows, in 5 years it may be Edius and Vegas battling for supremacy…it’s just tough to tell.)

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
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[Mgal]

Adobe has a document that explains the benefits of Production Premium (the suite) if you choose FCP.

It’s here: https://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/production/pdfs/prod_prem_datasheet_macintosh.pdf

But I would agree with Tim, it’s really not an FCP to Premiere issue. It’s a workflow issue and the suite is a hard-to-beat deal.

[Tyler Leisher]

So Vegas Video isn’t widely used? For someone that is editing videos on his own and not working with others, is Premiere, Vegas or FCP a better choice?

I’m interested in FCP but at the moment cannot afford to buy it and a new Mac at the same time.