Premiere v. FCP 5

jlames

jlames

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I know I'll be opening myself up to the, "What a stupid question!" shots that will inevitably come with this post but I'd really like your individual, serious responses to this because I'm no expert and most of you are judging by the threads I have read over the past few days here. So if you need to take the easy shot, go ahead but I'm hoping that those of you knowlegable in both systems can help me be at least a little bit more at ease with dishing out alot of money.

So, with that said, I'm about to sink about $10k into a new editing system and, given the fact that I have always worked in the Windows environment through Adobe Photoshop, PageMaker, Illustrator and others and so am very comfortable in it and have moderate experience without anything too fancy in Premiere but no experience with Premiere Pro, does anyone feel that FCP 5 is significantly better than Premiere Pro to justify making the investment in the Mac O/S learning curve to justify ordering a Mac/FCP 5 system instead of the XP/Premiere Pro system? As I said in a previous post, I'm in the middle of a project right now and instead of using my old system with Premiere on it, I have a Windows-based system on order that I can change if need be. $10k is alot of money and I need to look to the future of more work I'll be doing.

I'm going to be making documentaries and short independent films because I really enjoy the medium and it's beginning to become more than just a hobby.

To those that can help, thanks for any serious answers and opinions you might be able to provide.
Jonathan
 
I too use the entire Adobe suite (CS, PageMaker, etc) so for me, it wasn't much of a stretch to pick Premier, Audition and Encore. A $10k investment will buy you a very high performance edit suite with all the accessories that you will likely ever want. The capability of support the open HD standard with Adobe is also a strong reason to consider this direction.

I have to admit having no first hand experience with FC/FCP but have worked side by side with other editors on that platform. For me, its really the Apple issue that I find the most offensive aspect of the Final Cut work flow. I currently work on SGIs and PCs and I am just not interested in adding another platform which, from what I can tell, offers zero additional capability.

By the way, I don't think your question is stupid at all. You will likely receive a number of replies from ravenous supporters of one platform versus the other. For me it isn't about blind devotion but about practicality and capability.

Hope this helps and good luck with your new system.
 
Now that's helpful. I appreciate the candor and the reasoning and that's exactly where I am; with everything I do Windows-based (and I too hate the instability of the platform) is it worth learning a different platform just for editing? Thanks again
 
I went to school for film and learned on FCP and Avid. After school I got a job as an editor for online content and their entire systems run on Adobe. I had not had any real experience with Premiere until then but I have been using it for 9 months now and am loving it. I like being able to go back and forth from it to photoshop, audition, and other programs. I highly recommend Premiere Pro 1.5

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ive never used any other version, but i had never used it before and picked up on it in one afternoon. im still looking things up and finding out new tricks every day, but if you know one editing program, it doesnt take long to learn another one.
 
I am a pc/premiere fan and love the ease of editing with premiere in terms of user interface (very easy to learn and user friendly) My school however uses macs and i find final cut a little hard ot work with especially becasue you dont have too mant right clicking options and because macs in general have a diffrent (and most of the ti more difficult) user interface to work with in order to speperate themsleves form teh competition. If you like the way final cut and macs handle then there comes a question wethere you should go that route. Pros for final cut: good support for the latest technologies and codecs (DVCPRo hd, 24p normal and advanced) Cons for final cut: Macs are expensive, limited 3rd party video programs to work with on macs because of propiertery reasons. Pros for premiere: good workflow with other adobe software, more 3rd party video programs, ease of use. cons of premiere: no support of 24p normal just advanced .....cant really think of more. I am assuming i wont get anyone jumping on me for this respons e since this is a prmeier forum but either way these are just my experiences.
 
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