what are you hearing these days?

[David Lawrence]

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[Chris Kenny]

[Pam Picard] “Curious what others might be hearing in the marketplace.”

As a post house providing dailies/color/deliverables, we get to see what a lot of different projects — mostly indie features — are using.

It’s still almost all Avid and FCP 7. We’ve seen a couple of short-form projects use Premiere, but no features, nobody even really asking us about it. No features cut in FCP X yet either, although I believe we might have one on the calendar, and people ask us about it every now and then.

For projects edited internally FCP X is now our app of choice. Media Composer and FCP 7 feel archaic. Premiere feels clunky, and the CC licensing model makes it pricey enough that we don’t have it on most systems. We’ve also started using FCP X for prepping deliverables (combining rendered reels out of Resolve with audio to output master files to lay back to tape, etc.). It has some features that make it great for this (e.g. audio roles), it’s fast, and I can just set up one output after the next and hit export thanks to its background exporting.

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[Ben Mullins]

I use PPro CC, MC7, and a little bit of X. They all have their upsides (love Keywords in X) and I can happily use any of them, however Premiere is definitely my favourite. If Adobe hadn’t jumped us all in the showers with their CC agenda I think there would be a lot more support for it because as an app it really is excellent. That said I think it’s important to distinguish between the two groups of people who need to choose their NLE – individual editors and post houses. As an individual editor I think now more than ever it’s important to know all 3 mentioned above as this will increase the number of jobs you are able to accept or apply for. If someone offers you work and you have to turn it down because you can’t use the software then you’re needlessly limiting yourself. Plus by knowing these main 3 NLE’s you’re hedging your bets in terms of which (if any) will eventually conquer all and which will eventually EOL. Of course not everyone has the luxury of being able to learn more than one NLE, but I would highly recommend it if possible.

In terms of post houses and production companies etc. their choice gets a little more complicated as they often need to replace/add more software and hardware than individuals do, plus consider wider more complicated workflows, therefore any change becomes a larger investment. As an individual editor I can’t comment too extensively on this but there are plenty of people on here who can. I think what you will tend to find is people trialing new software on their own time working on personal projects until they feel confident that they can use it to a professional standard.

Hope this helps,

Ben.

[Dennis Radeke]

[Chris Kenny] “We’ve seen a couple of short-form projects use Premiere, but no features, nobody even really asking us about it. No features cut in FCP X yet either”

Well, there are plenty being done. We did some stories from last years Sundance and we know quite a few for SXSW. As for major features, we’ve spoken about what we can say, but most people know that there are major features getting behind Premiere Pro.

It’s an interesting time as we see different approaches vetted out in the marketplace. I think there is room for all.

Dennis – Adobe guy