[Steve Connor]

[andy patterson] “Having said that I don’t doubt there are other people here who have used some obscure NLE that may have had innovative features. I myself would love to hear about them. “

Incite – on that you could edit while capturing at the same time.

[andy patterson] “Would you want to edit native ACVHD using FCP 7 while I use Premiere Pro CS 5? “

No, I had that choice but I chose to transcode and use the very excellent FCP7 instead of using the unreliable dog that was CS5 🙂

[Steve Connor]

[Scott Witthaus] “[andy patterson] “Premiere Pro CS 5.0 was much better than FCP 7″

You seriously mean this?”

Stretching credibility to the limits I think 🙂

[Steve Connor]

https://creative.adobe.com/plans

Single App for Single month on PPro appears to be $29.99

[Steve Connor]

Not on the Photo Plan, due to it’s low cost I assume, you can take Photoshop and everything else monthly though

[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “AFAIK, there is NO “one month” subscription in the Adobe system regarding video editing.
“

Wrong, you can just have a single month

[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “He’s asking for Apple to “open up” to alternative programs needs.
“

Yes, their Hardware and OS platform, has nothing to do with what other NLE Software Companies do with their interchange.

[Steve Connor]

[Shawn Miller] “I don’t doubt that – what kind of work do you mostly do?”

A few years ago it was Documentary but it’s mostly Corporate and Web now with occasional music Vid and short films

[Steve Connor]

[Shawn Miller] ” I’ve been banging around in corporate and indie film production for about as long, and in my corner of the creative universe (event, corporate, indie, local, etc)… editors aren’t nearly as OS centric. I think I’ve only been required to use a Mac twice in my whole career… and that was at Microsoft. ☺ Like I said though, I don’t have any real numbers to support my beliefs, but I would be interested in knowing what the breakdown is. “

and in my corner of the industry I haven’t seen hardly any shops using PC’s at all, I haven’t edited on a PC based NLE for at least a decade

[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “For some reason, no positive X post will EVER go unchallenged here. “

As will no negative post either 🙂

[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “A 10 fold productivity boosts in getting 4k renders done with FCP X running on a MacBook Pro verses the same software running on PC hardware. “

I think if you’d have said this instead of

“But running X on a modern Mac Laptop – and the productivity boost appears to be as much as 10X!”

Then David wouldn’t have chimed in. Final output renders are just a small part of the Productivity measure of an NLE