Premiere Pro CC versus FCP X

[Devin Crane]

Reliance on the cloud.

[David Mathis]

My reasons:

1. FCP X is trackless which often equates to faster editing. No need to patch or worry about which tracks are assigned. Granted, tracks can be useful sometimes.
2. Ability to create a custom title, transition, effect, or generator. From there publish parameters of your choice, save and ready to go.
3. Better organization, create keywords and collections from finder tags. A small, but very useful feature.
4. As you do not have pay monthly rent, it is going to be cost effective over the long term.
5. Improved media management in last version.
6. Great workflow to and from Resolve 11 when more advanced color correction and grading is needed.

Those are my thoughts, look forward to hearing from others.

I am an avid user of FCP X!

[Devin Crane]

Ability to custom create titles and effects is huge. We produce episodic programming and have found the ability to create our own them of effects and titles was the biggest plus.

Multicam in FCPX has by far the best implementation of it compared to all the editors we have worked with.

[Walter Soyka]

[David Mathis] “2. Ability to create a custom title, transition, effect, or generator. From there publish parameters of your choice, save and ready to go.”

[Devin Crane] “Ability to custom create titles and effects is huge. We produce episodic programming and have found the ability to create our own them of effects and titles was the biggest plus.”

CC 2014 introduces live text templates [link], which are Ae comps with replaceable text in Premiere.

I’ve published a workflow which extends live text templates with expressions [link], allowing the user to hijack extra text entry fields to control non-text comp elements, too.

It’s not as good as the FCPX/M5 rigging/publishing workflow (yet), but it does handle the base case pretty nicely. I’m hopeful that there will be more development along these lines, and I’d certainly apprciate any Ae/Pr users out there helping me to encourage the developers [link] along these lines.

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Simon Ubsdell]

[Walter Soyka] “I’ve published a workflow which extends live text templates with expressions [link], allowing the user to hijack extra text entry fields to control non-text comp elements, too.”

If anyone hasn’t watched Walter’s demo of this, I heartily recommend it – extremely clever (as one would of course expect! and extremely useful.

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo-uk.com

[Devin Crane]

[Walter Soyka] “CC 2014 introduces live text templates [link], which are Ae comps with replaceable text in Premiere.”

Still requires the Cloud, sorry but a no go for our organization.

[Walter Soyka]

[Devin Crane] “Still requires the Cloud, sorry but a no go for our organization.”

I’m not selling anything, and of course I think you should make the decision that’s best for you and your team.

I’m just pointing out that a variation on this feature now exists in the Adobe ecosystem, too. It’s quite new.

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
@keenlive   |   RenderBreak [blog]   |   Profile [LinkedIn]

[Bill Davis]

With much due respect, Walter and Simon – is it fair to say that you’ve switched from Premier Pro to X?

And if not, you’re not responding to Oliver’s actual question.

If anyone “gets” defending one’s decisions to pick an NLE it’s me. But when I started to respond to this I looked back at Olivers questions and since he was polling current X users who had come to it from PREMIER – = that disqualifies me. So I didn’t respond.

FWIW.

Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.

[Walter Soyka]

[Bill Davis] “With much due respect, Walter and Simon – is it fair to say that you’ve switched from Premier Pro to X? And if not, you’re not responding to Oliver’s actual question.”

I wasn’t attempting to answer Oliver’s question. I was responding quite narrowly to Devin and David, clarifying that with the latest release of CC 2014, the rigging/publishing workflow they were citing is no longer unique to FCPX/M5 in this comparison.

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
@keenlive   |   RenderBreak [blog]   |   Profile [LinkedIn]

[Devin Crane]

[Walter Soyka] “I wasn’t attempting to answer Oliver’s question. I was responding quite narrowly to Devin and David, clarifying that with the latest release of CC 2014, the rigging/publishing workflow they were citing is no longer unique to FCPX/M5 in this comparison.”

Still misses the point of the thread.