Slightly OT, but Premier is back

[Ron Moody]

Sorry, I must have responded to the initial message.

Didn’t mean to mess up the nice progression in the message. My apologies.

rm

[Sean Oneil]

I tried Premiere Pro 1.0 when it came out. I even cut a trailer on it start to finish within the 30 day trial period.

I thought the RT performance was incredible. But it was really buggy and unstable.

Regardless, I’d never tell a client or potential client that I cut on Adobe Premiere. It just sounds really bad. Hard enough convincing people FCP is on par with Avid.

Sean

[Jimmy Brunger]

[Sean ONeil] “Regardless, I’d never tell a client or potential client that I cut on Adobe Premiere. It just sounds really bad. Hard enough convincing people FCP is on par with Avid.”

That’s my issue…we’re looking at upgrading at the moment – initially thoughts were Smoke as a main suite and FCP as a secondary – but after seeing what PPro2 and Axio HD can do for RT uncompressed HD..it looks pretty special.

That said – people (namely snobby clients) just don’t like the word “Premiere” do they!? I mean, for me it still reminds me of that old heap of cr*p I edited on at college. It’s going to be hard for Adobe to shake that stigma, unless they re-name it..which it doesn’t look like they’re doing!
Other problem for us is that there are not many Premiere freelancers out there, so we’d struggle I think. Though I have heard Prem is VERY similar to FCP?

Does anyone know of a Mac/FCP setup that could match Axio HD for speed? I think that would be safer for us. I hate to be safe, but when it’s not your money… 😉

[Walter Biscardi]

[Sean ONeil] “Regardless, I’d never tell a client or potential client that I cut on Adobe Premiere. It just sounds really bad. Hard enough convincing people FCP is on par with Avid.”

Actually the FCP vs. Avid argument is moot here in my experience in Atlanta. Producers I work with here in town have accepted FCP as a pro editing system and there’s no question as to whether the quality is on par with Avid.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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