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Premiere Pro comes to the Mac
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I sure hope that the Premiere Pro implementation on the Mac is as good as that on the PC. Or FCP will wipe the floor with it. If it is as good as on a PC, FCP is going to lose its monopoly on the Mac and probably will get a lot better, very quickly, in self defense. So, can Adobe keep up the race? That’s the real question. If Adobe wants to play in the Mac sandbox, it is going to have to be big and tough and bully FCP around, at least now and then, in between the leapfrog advances both applications need to make.
Steven
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They said this new version is a “milestone” above the last. I am curious to see if that statement holds true.
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I think that just the implementation of DV Rack will give FCP quite a bit to chew on, unless Adobe decides to keep DV rack as a separate application.
Vince
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My two cents.
After using Premiere on Os’s from Win 3.1 or whenever Premiere became usable through 95 and 98, 2000 and now XP, I made the leap to the Mac about a month ago. Just this week I turned out my first 30 minute show… and had a great surprise.
My production flow is based on AVI’s. I capture and output to tape on a windows PC, sharing files via a network running Linux over Gigabit to four striped 250 gig drives. Prior to buying the Core 2 duo Imac, I tested reading and writing to the server. Everything went as planned, better actually, since I was able to get better network performance over the 100mb/s network interface of the G5 Imac I used to test things than the gigabit connections in the windows PCs.
Imagine my shock this week when I tried to turn out a 30 minute show to AVI only to discover that the six gig AVI file wasn’t readable. I finally split the file into three parts, which did work, then joined them back together in the PC via Premiere. Yesterday I discovered that quicktime can only output about a gig worth of AVI. In other words, only the first five or ten minutes of any large AVI are usable, if that. It’s a known problem and I finally discovered the documentation on the Apple support site.
I’m hoping that one of the advantages of Premiere on the Mac is that you will not be bound by this constraint, and in addition, can build on the advantages of OSX. I’m tired of fighting Windows all the time. I finally gave up, only to find another fight was waiting.
The leap to PPro from version six (never got 6.5) was huge. One point five was even better, and two was better than that. I’m much faster on Premiere than Final cut, although some of the tools are amazingly good (like warning symbols showing when you’re out of legal limits and real time Waveform monitoring).
All in all, I would readily move back to Premiere on the Mac. I think I’m done with Windows though.
Ron from Maui
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There were some leaked PDF’s floating around the web about Premiere Pro 3.0 new feature set, which using some slightly overused hyperbole, was awesome.
I suppose FCP will counter-attack with Windows porting.Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
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I seriously doubt that FCP would lower it’s standards that way. But it would be an interesting exercise.
Steven
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I suspect the world at large will discover that (other than very specific features that tilt the field one way or the other depending on your workflow…) these two programs are surprisingly similar once they function on the same computer(s).
…and we’ll all be back to discussing politics and religion…and tape formats of course, tape formats are a hot topic…
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TimK,
Director,
Kolb Productions,Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
http://www.focalpress.com
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Similar is an understatement. When I did my Premiere Pro 1.5 tutorials for Lynda.com, I merely copied the tutorials for FCP using the same footage to get the same result. There were very few differences. Superficial things like the difference between modifier keys, or dropping an item in a very specific place within the track. Stuff like that.
I think we will be able to take part in a feature war the likes of which we have not seen since Lotus 123 and Excel went head to head. That is, if both parties want to play.
Steven
https://www.stevengotz.com
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