[Iain Faulkner]

Hi Bryan,

I’m not working in 4k yet, but I made the move about two years ago, having realised that FCP7 was dead and that FCPX was an unworkable mix of genius and bonkers.

I find that after about 12 months of cursing new software, one rounds the curve and it becomes the solution of comfort!

The one thing I didn’t do was to reconfigure Premiere to match FCP’s keystrokes, as that seemed like clinging onto the past – you either learn the new product or you don’t.

I love Premiere. There’s virtually nothing you can’t throw at it, and CC seems much more stable than previous versions. (What I don’t like is the ‘send to after effects’ functionality – at first it seems amazingly useful and efficient, but I had a serious AE corruption that then, of course, corrupted the return to the Premiere timeline – wouldn’t have mattered if I’d duplicated the timeline first, of course, but I was working fast and…well, I didn’t. Also, not all effects from Premiere transfer over.)

You can always do the 1 month trial just to see how it fits.

I know I haven’t addressed any of your specific issues – all I can say is that it works well for us – you really have to have CC anyway to get AE and Photoshop, so it’s financially a no-brainer.

Good luck with your decision!