Hi Rieni and thanks for the welcome back! I've worked on Final Cut Pro on a TV series aprox eight months this year. I was very impressed by the multi-format timeline and the trim-capabilities. I've edited a lot of formats on FCP (even RED) and it worked ok. Final Cut is absolutely my tool of choice, but my new employer gave me Avid Media Composer 3 to work with, and in these financial times I do not want to be the one going on about switching all the editing suites to FCP:)
My next best choice would be Premiere. This is only my humble opinion but I think that Premiere is far superior to Avid. You can talk about stability and whatever all you want, but the restrictions on usable file formats _really_ narrows Avid down. Another thing that I HATE with Avid is that you ALWAYS have to tell it what you are going to do... For example: In Premiere I would use the source window to choose in and out points and then I could hit a keyboard shortcut to insert it into the timeline or use the mouse and drag it where I want it. In Avid you have to manually deselect the tracks you DON'T want it to overwrite EACH TIME. Let's say you have a rather complex timeline with maybe twelve videotracks and you are dropping material on different tracks each time, wouldn't it be easier to let the mouse gestures decide? Another thing is the interface. Premiere has really gotten this right. If you resize one window the other will follow. I have never seen that much waste of real estate that Avid offers... In Premiere you can right click a clip that is on the timeline and (for example) adjust the speed of the clip. In Avid you need to match frame, find the correct in and out points, do the re-timing, make a subclip and then re-add to the timeline... Feels really unnecessary. Avid have some upsides though.. It is really (and I mean REALLY) stable. That sucker doesn't crash often! (I feel that Premiere crashes most compared to Avid and FCP). I've worked on some large commercials and feature films shot on 35mm. We usually get the material scanned one-light on miniDV tapes with seperate sound on DVD-ROMS (they use Aton for sound). My job is then to synch the sound. Let us say that one scene was done with 10 different sources (one boom for atmos and nine wireless mics). If the sound comes with timecode (it probably does in 25% of the cases) you can highlight the entire bin in Avid and click "autosynch". It will then locate all the different audiotracks (files) and synch them after timecode. This is a MAJOR timesaver.. These bins can hold hundreds if not thousands of files.. Final Cut can't do this.. You have to locate the files and synch them individually (synch them by group). I also think that Avid is better at handling larger projects. Last year I worked on a TV series with 82 days of shooting. This was all done in 720p on Panasonic P2 and edited on FCP. We had one project for each the six episodes and one project of each day of shooting. The reason we did this was that we did different shots for different episodes same days of shooting. Final Cut wasn't to keen on this workflow and crashed a lot on import (this was an issue of the P2 import I guess). It crashed on me maybe two or three times each night (just think of the amount of crashes after 82 days of shooting..). This year I've worked on Avid on a feature film and it is stable as rock lying on the ground (hehe). It handles large projects really well. Two of the major production houses (one being NRK (Norways BBC)) in Norway are moving from Avid to Final Cut Pro, so I'd have to say that the tendency is clear.. This is all my humble opinion(s) though! What do you think of FCP compared to Avid and Premiere? - Dunderfilm // Sune Alexandersen www.dunderfilm.no www.suneworld.com 2008/12/28 Rieni <[email protected]> > Hi Sune, > > Welcome back! > > I can't answer your question because I still use FCX, but in which > way do you feel that Premiere is better than Avid? And have you ever > worked with Final Cut? > > Rieni ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
