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studio1972
11-14-2008, 05:44 AM
Just wondering if anybody has yet had a go with PPro on the Mac, and how it compares to FCS.
I would potentially be using it to edit wedding videos and potentially create Blu Ray disks (in addition to DVDs). It would be great if it handled large PH mode clips better than FCS and if native AVCHD editing was responsive. I have a mac pro 2.8 8 core with 6GB ram.
Hopefully FCS3 will improve a lot and provide proper AVCHD support, but I have no idea when this might be released. I am using FCE at the moment. I presume there wouldn't be a huge learning curve to overcome?
Many thanks,
Stuart
shrigg
12-02-2008, 11:00 PM
Well all I can say is it chokes and crashes horribly on my MacBook Pro. I have heard others say PP CS4 looks like it has a nice interface but is nowhere near as deep as Final Cut Pro as far as tweakability, settings, etc. I plan to stay in th3e FCP camp.
David Saraceno
12-03-2008, 10:10 AM
On both a clean install to a MBP 2.4 GHz CoreDuo 2 with 6 GBs of RAM and to a MacPro 2.66 GHz Quadcore with the same RAM, CS4 Premiere wholly failed to be able to edit native MTS files.
It hung, forced quits didn't work, and basically was pretty dysmal.
I gave up trying.
David J. has a Windows box and says he can edit without issue. But at least with my two set ups, no go on a Mac.
Timothy Harry
12-03-2008, 12:44 PM
Just wondering if anybody has yet had a go with PPro on the Mac, and how it compares to FCS.
I would potentially be using it to edit wedding videos and potentially create Blu Ray disks (in addition to DVDs). It would be great if it handled large PH mode clips better than FCS and if native AVCHD editing was responsive. I have a mac pro 2.8 8 core with 6GB ram.
Hopefully FCS3 will improve a lot and provide proper AVCHD support, but I have no idea when this might be released. I am using FCE at the moment. I presume there wouldn't be a huge learning curve to overcome?
Many thanks,
Stuart
we had quite a bit of trouble initially, especially with the AJA IOHD but it is now working on the demo system in the office. as for editing, I like FCP much better.
ecking
12-03-2008, 09:15 PM
hopefully fcs3 will improve a lot and provide proper avchd support, but i have no idea when this might be released.
nab.
Niko18042
12-03-2008, 09:27 PM
i haven't fooled around with it much, but on my 2.33 ghz imac with 3 gb of ram, it lags a bit. and it doesn't play smooth no matter what i set the playback settings to. this is sd dv video so it should be fine.
the interface looks nice, but all of the cs4 apps feel slow. i would stick with fcp.