Point me please I know this has been discussed.

[David Roth weiss]

Each suite has its own strengths and weaknesses. CS4 has incredible integration across its entire suite of applications with Adobe Dynamic Link, but FCP is more in demand and so FCP users get more work, at least they do now. What’s more important to you?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Reggie Spires]

Work flow work flow work flow

Render times kill me .. etc Which is better from a work flow perspective

Reggie Spires
Magic City Group
Magic City Productions
Magic City Advertising

[Shane Ross]

THis all depends…what is your workflow? What sort of stuff are you working on? What applications do you use to accomplish this? Each NLE is strong in areas and weak in others. Knowing what you need to accomplish and what will best accomplish that is key.

Here is a lively discussion…
https://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=148137

Shane

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[Reggie Spires]

I use AE with zaxwerks stuff .. the renders are horribly long though I haven’t used it on my bran new macbook pro 🙂

How is Motion vs AE ..

I build more commercials than anything..

I don’t think there can be much difference in PPro and final cut ..

It would be more on the AE side.

Reggie Spires
Magic City Group
Magic City Productions
Magic City Advertising

[Steve Eisen]

Each program has its strength and weaknesses. They play very well together and your ultimate goal is to learn an effective workflow between the two suites.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[David Roth weiss]

[Reggie Spires] “I don’t think there can be much difference in PPro and final cut ..”

PPro and FCP are every similar.

AE and Motion are very different. Few who know AE would consider switching to Motion.

FCS has Color, there’s nothing even close to its power in any other suite of apps.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Colin Mcquillan]

[Steve Eisen] “They play very well together and your ultimate goal is to learn an effective workflow between the two suites.”

If you can afford it, I’d also suggest a combination of both.
I find I use both quite a bit. For my main editor I use FCP over PPro. I personally find FCP faster for me to use and a superior product. My first home suite was PPro based and I thought it was the cats-a** until I started working more and more with FCP over Avid at various shops.. I’d never switch back.

For quick mo-graph I use Motion over AE because it is so fast, but for building bigger comps AE works better and has greater functionality (IMO)

If you work with client logos and various other still gfx, then you will almost certainly need at least photoshop, if not also illustrator, as Motion plays nice with .ai and .eps files to keep your logos nice and crisp. There is no alternative in FSC for either of these programs.

STP is far better than Audition or Soundbooth, but on a recent long form project it fell apart on me, so on the next I think I’m going back to Protools LE.

I personally find DVDSP far superior to Encore, but Encore can do blueray(in theory)

If I had to choose one suite over the other, I’d definitely go with FCS over CS4, however you will most likely need to get a hold of Photoshop.

Both have their ups and downs. I have both and use every program from FCS and compliment that with PS, AE and AI. The rest of the CS programs I feel don’t add up to their FCS counterparts, so I don’t use them.

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.