So who is the best candidate?

[Adam Claude jones]

Who’s talking about buying more FCP 7 seats?
I’m talking about leaving FCP and need to know what is the best option for my needs which I stated.
Can Premiere work with DPX sequences?
How does it work with Resolve?
Can it integrate well with professional industry standard tools like ProTools, nuke, Fusion, Maya, 3DS Max or just with stuff from the adobe suite?
Things like these are what dictates professional from prosumer. Not my opinion. If it can it can if it can’t then it can’t.

[Adam Claude jones]

Can both do the stuff I mentioned?

[Jim Giberti]

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Adam, I don’t read the writing on the wall the same way as some people have.
I’d give it a little time to see how this really looks in a few months.
Right now, running 7 and X concurrently is nice.

FWIW I literally used a couple of old $30k Media 100 systems as doorstops when we were moving into our new facilities,

[Tom Daigon]

Adam – “Can Premiere work with DPX sequences?”

Adobe – “DPX file import and export
Work with DPX frame sequences that include embedded timecode as footage in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5. Full control over parameters like black point, bit depth, and log/linear space allows nondestructive changes to be made at any time.”

This was my Google search to get you started. Try it…you’ll like it since no one here seems to be addressing your questions to your satisfaction 😉

Tom Daigon
Avid DS / FCP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com

[Daniel Frome]

“Needs to be able to edit DPX, XDCAM, DSLR.”
Both Can do that.

“*Work with Resolve”
I haven’t heard of Ppro successully doing this.. so I’m not sure. Resolve is supposed to support AAF… while AVID’s AAF export seems solid, I haven’t had a single successful AAF export from Premiere myself.

“*Footage will need to be sent for compositing in either Nuke or Fusion. Rarely After Effects.”
AVID will be an advantage here, since you could get your artists to encode straight into DNxHD format. Premiere doesn’t have it’s own “format” … which can somewhat be annoying when picking a format to render to and not wanting to say “uncompressed”. The DNxHD codecs are a free download for all users, whether they own avid products are not, mac or windows — it’s all the same. Of course… you could always import those DNxHD files into Premiere … but you wouldn’t get the same real-time performance that way.

“If it matters, applications such as Maya, 3DS Max and Lightwave are often used in such projects.”
Same advice applies here as above.

[Adam Claude jones]

Problem is I don’t have a little time or a few months. I need a new system now.

You can still buy new Media100’s by the way and I’m hearing good things about it too.

[Adam Claude jones]

So it’s looking like Avid may be the ticket. It works natively with DPX? This is a big plus since FCP needed Gluetools.
Any ideas about Cineform?

[Neil Goodman]

i think its funny how many dismissed Ppro as a “consumer” tool just last week, are now seriuosly considering it for there buisness and production house. In my opinion the obvious choice for switching is Avid. I dont know about the rest of the world, but Avid is still the standard here in Los Angeles. I see way more Avid rigs than FCP ones in the broadcast/Film world although we all know FCP has been able to do the job for a while now.

With that said, we all know Avid isnt going anywhere and will jsut be getting better with time. Im gonna be sticking with FCP 7 until all the dust settles and get some real clarity on the situation.

Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal

[Daniel Frome]

Cineform is a great codec, basically a good substitute for DNxHD for AVID and ProRes for FCP. I don’t have too much experience with it, though.

An annoying factor is that an out-of-house artist may not have the codec…and then you’re stuck re-encoding their work.

In my opinion I would rather leave third-party codecs out of the equation when possible.

[Daniel Frome]

Oh… I just wanted to add a polite warning though: download the MC 5.5 trial and dive head-first into the tutorials. Media Composer is NOT your average editor and I trust you will break your keyboard a few times before welcoming your new toy.