Premiere or FCP
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- autoflavour
so i decided recently i should perhaps drag myself out of 2009 and upgrade my imac from snow leopard to yosemite.
as part of this new world order, i figured i might poke around with moving from fcp 7 to something slightly more contemporary..
I know there was a massive shift away from fcp when fcp x came out as the abortion it did when they released it, but from what i can tell it seems to be more stable now..
anyway, i guess i was just doing a straw poll here about what people are using here and why.. also what you are finding you are needing in the real world..
- autoflavour0
i know this is a coke vs pepsi kind of question.. im just curious as if im going to need to fuck with my workflow to learn something else, it would be nice to have some feedback.
i have played a bit with both so far, FCP X is kind of frustrating.. but seems to be more stable
- Weyland1
I use Lightworks now for video ... There's a mac version (and free version) too: http://www.lwks.com/index.php?op…
Full disclosure: I'm just cutting and pasting stuff for youtube myself
- toemaas1
If you are working with a large group of other Adobe tools or in an environment where you are sharing files - go with Premiere. If you are going it alone and ingesting a lot of footage and need simple editing tools, i.e. color corrections, etc - then go with FCPX
- vaxorcist0
I like premiere more these days now that I am used to it. Took a while coming from FCP, but I never really loved FCP X
- fate2
Premiere all day.
FCP X is shit, Apple really messed up.
- garbage1
my 2¢:
if you're going to do anything commercial i would go with premiere. if you're making youtube vids of your cat, fcp will suffice.
you mentioned stability problems with premiere? what sort of problems?
- fate1
Premiere is like a knife. It's direct, it's simple, it's effective and dependable.
FCP X is like a salad shooter. It's shitty to use, limited in its functionality, and overall just cumbersome.
- autoflavour0
i have just come from 10 years of FCP usage.. i didnt migrate to X when it came out as there seemed to be way too many problems.. and then after that i just kind of kept working FCP7..
i am only now thinking about moving as I just feel its probably good to learn something new..
- inteliboy1
Premiere or Avid.
Fuck FCPX right off. Apple make stopped making software for pros long ago.
- evilpeacock1
Premiere is the good "status quo" option. It is touchy if you use a lot of plugins and do "advanced" things with imported XML workflows. I've had major stability problems with recent versions that no other NLE I use has had. But it's still a good option, especially if you already pay for Creative Cloud.
FCPX was launched poorly, but since its first year then there have been quite a few very significant updates. Like so many things on the Internet everyone talks about the launch version's issues still, but clearly haven't used it since. And there are plenty of places that use it; the guys I've talked to haven't kept up with it since the launch and don't seem to understand its non-tape or film reel based approach.
A pro is that FCPX is a one-time purchase at $300 and can deal with most everything these days, and do it like butter if you have the GPU to support it's OpenCL architecture. And you're not locked in, you can round-trip between FCPX and DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, After Effects and others thanks to modern XML workflows (though this isn't for everyone).
FCPX does require you really learn how to use it, and within that understand that it's designed around editors above everything else. Once you learn it, it's actually hard to use the linear editors. I can cut 5x as quickly in FCPX as I can in Premiere or FCP7 (YMMV of course).
Also, relinking assets in FCPX is a one click batch operation via a "find all" command whereas Premiere often requires lots of hunting and gathering. I do a ton of media management so little feature really matters.
- ********0
I like them both.
I prefer FCPX right now
- pr20
There is no answer because we al do different stuff that requires different options.
Right now the pros - my wife and all her co-workers (every one with 10+ years of editing experience with multiple national TV shows and commercials to their credit) only consider Avid MC and Premiere. Actually if you are doing episodic TV then the only option is Avid as it manages assets better. On the other hand FCPX is loved by my close friend who runs very successful on-man-band outfit. I just finished editing a feature length doc (that's doing its rounds winning major awards blah, blah) that was cut on Avid MC - and i can tell you my share of shit we had to deal with. Which means that even top tier industry standard software is not without its pains. My other friend (one of those top tier editors) is cutting a feature doc now on Premiere and is ripping his hair out (if he could, he would go back to Avid in fraction of a second).
- just wanted to ad that my opinion comes from position of director not editor: AVID is not software u can just jump into like premiere or FCP.pr2
- Agreed — I'm a one-man operation inside a marketing communications company and we've found FCPX to be just fine. I still use After Effects heavily with it.evilpeacock