Prem vs FCPX – Panels

[Joseph W. bourke]

I was referring to both, in that the panels are not only configurable, but also buttons for functions can added or removed, thus making the GUI configurable to a certain degree as well. As to the overall UI look of the PPro software, it’s clean enough to not bother me, and from a design standpoint, I find it easy on the eyes. I also use enough keyboard shortcuts (DOS guy) that clearing out some of the buttons is a good thing.

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Oliver Peters]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I don’t know why any editor that works on a deadline would use this software. It is hard to predict and thrives on chaos. …..I’m also glad I don’t have to use it everyday. “

I would venture to say that most users’ experience is exactly the opposite.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Oliver Peters] “I would venture to say that most users’ experience is exactly the opposite.”

Then they must enjoy the pain.

[Oliver Peters]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Then they must enjoy the pain.”

As someone who uses it nearly every day for better or worse, I would say, yes, we do ☺

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Simon Ubsdell]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I’m also glad I don’t have to use it everyday. “

Hi Jeremy,

As someone who uses it every day, I’m going to have to agree with Oliver and disagree with you.

I’m sorry to hear you’ve had a bad experience – I guess it happens to all of us at some time with one piece of software or another. But for me and my colleagues the Premiere experience has mostly been about daily surprise at how much it can do that suits the way we like to work.

Collectively, I don’t think we’ve had any crashes in the last six months of working with it. (Now that’s tempting fate!)

I’d stick my neck out here and suggest that your problems don’t sound normal – hardware issues, software conflicts?

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
hawaiki

[Scott Witthaus]

[andy patterson] “Don’t back out on me, dude.”

ooooohhhhh

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Andy Patterson]

[Scott Witthaus] “[andy patterson] “Don’t back out on me, dude.”

ooooohhhhh”

Don’t you want to see this awesome GUI that makes Premiere Pro’s GUI look lousy? If I stated FCPX has crappy metadata capabilities compared to Premiere Pro wouldn’t you want proof? I’m sure you would leave a comment of some kind if I made that statement. You don’t see Avid users or Premiere Pro users bad mouthing FCPX the same way FCPX users bad mouth Premiere Pro and Avid. I think most people who use FCPX and Premiere Pro would say Premiere has a better GUI than FCPX but they don’t say FCPX has a lousy GUI. See my point?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[andy patterson] “You don’t see Avid users or Premiere Pro users bad mouthing FCPX the same way FCPX users bad mouth Premiere Pro and Avid.”

I would start reading from the beginning of this forum.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Simon Ubsdell] “I’m sorry to hear you’ve had a bad experience – I guess it happens to all of us at some time with one piece of software or another. But for me and my colleagues the Premiere experience has mostly been about daily surprise at how much it can do that suits the way we like to work. “

But of course. What I like about FCPX is that it doesn’t try and do everything, although I find it to be much more creative software. Pr is not as intuitive. I also find it to not be as creative, sure you can be creative with it, but it is cumbersome when compared to FCPX. Syncing clips is nutty, XML is not accurate, relinking is goofy. The effects UI is unorganized. And seriously, having trouble with layered PSDs? It’s the Creative Cloud for chrissakes.

[Simon Ubsdell] “I’d stick my neck out here and suggest that your problems don’t sound normal – hardware issues, software conflicts?”

Perhaps Photoshop and Pr don’t work well together? Everything else on multiple computers works, but it’s only this program that has an issue, or my hardware only fails in Pr?

What it comes down to, is that I don’t prefer it. It is unnecessarily clunky. It tries to do too much with a bunch of add on features in weird places.

FCPX has a very robust interchange system that can go out to highly specialized environments to get work done.

[Brian Seegmiller]

for me it is not just the UI that I like in FCP X, It is the way FCP X functions. For example, In pp you can hoover scrub a thumb nail but to be acurate in order to set in and out points you have to open it up in the viewer. Then all yopu have is just a frame of the video that you see at any given time. You have to scrub the whole clip to find that one shot you want and you don’t see the audio waveforms to boot unless you click the button to see it. In FCP X you have a film strip view in the browser either in list view or thumbnail view. While you scrub you have the progam window show your video automaticaly. No need to double click to open it in the viewer. Plus with the filmstrip view you can find that one shot faster by going directly to it. Plus you can choose to see the waveforms. Even if the UI in FCP X maybe lacking for some, I can get my work done faster because it is simple and not cluttered. IMHO.