[Steve Connor]

[Brian Seegmiller] “for me it is not just the UI that I like in FCP X, It is the way FCP X functions. For example, In pp you can hoover scrub a thumb nail but to be acurate in order to set in and out points you have to open it up in the viewer. Then all yopu have is just a frame of the video that you see at any given time. You have to scrub the whole clip to find that one shot you want and you don’t see the audio waveforms to boot unless you click the button to see it”

Agreed, “Hover Scrub” in Pro is occasionally useful but it’s nowhere near as useful as skimming in FCPX

[Steve Connor]

[Joseph W. Bourke] ” Premiere Pro has an interface you can actually change if you don’t like what’s there. Highly customizable.”

Yep, you can make it look like FCPX if you want (Especially now that FCPX looks even more like PPro ☺ )

[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “BTW, isn’t it interesting that the new electric cars are WAY faster “off the line” than the vast majority of gas powered vehicles? May be something to learn from that. Or not. Who really knows?”

Not really, the gas powered cars will soon be passing the electric cars afterwards 🙂

[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “I actually use Premiere Pro to CREATE a timeline and put energy into perfecting it – and then stop paying – that creative effort all gets locked away from me. “

Yep, you lose access to the rushes, any master files you’ve made, any EDL’s you’ve outputted it’s terrible!

Thing is, anyone who’s a Professional using CC, carries on paying the subscription, because it’s NOT a very large amount at all, easily written of against tax and billed in an hour a month!

[Steve Connor]

[Shawn Miller] “You’re probably right though, they don’t seem all that interested in building the kind of machine that would be useful to me. ☹”

and Bill will no doubt tell us what a great move by Apple that is

[Steve Connor]

[Shawn Miller] “and this is where I’m seeing more 3D artists switch to Windows… they want faster previews, and Apple just isn’t offering the hardware that will let them do that.
“

Nor will they ever, I suspect

[Steve Connor]

[Shawn Miller] “Lastly, everything you’re saying about PPro CS5 could be said about Motion today”

Apart that it isn’t a great NLE ☺ Motion is, at least, reliable. CS5 certainly wasn’t for a long time

[Steve Connor]

[andy patterson] “While you are transcoding I will be editing : )”

After taking at eternity to generate peak files of course

[Steve Connor]

[andy patterson] “Don’t let anyone ever tell you you chose wisely. I have used FCP 7.

Having said that wanna race? You can use FCP 7 and I’ll use PP CS 5.0. While you are transcoding I will be editing : )
“

Yep CS5, it was SOOO great that it was widely used across the Industry and there were LOADS of Freelance jobs around for it, whereas that FCP7 that you think isn’t a wise choice was hardly used and there was NO Freelance work for it.

But you feel free have a race, because that’s what Editing is – a race!

[Steve Connor]

[Herb Sevush] “”Premiere Pro CS 5.0 was much better than FCP 7 as well.”

Only true if the entirety of your workflow was ingesting and exporting AVCHD. If you had to do any actual, you know, editing, that statement is absurd.”

He’s the first Editor I’ve EVER heard make that statement

I’ve Edited with Premiere since before it was Premiere Pro and it was horrid all the way to the early CC versions