alright once again it's time for subject of the day, where people can talk film making and have some fun at the same time, alright here's the subject: if you could choose between Avid or Adobe as your editing program which one would you choose and why, feel free to express opinions or some facts you have learned by using either, any and all replies are apriciated.
aww come on, nobody has any post-production war stories about these two systems?
Sorry. I've been a FCP user since day one.
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I've used both premiere and avid, about once each (premiere first then i gave up and used Movie maker to finish the job. and a while later used avid to make an art video for someone), so I never really figured out how to use either of them well, but premier did manage to crash a whole bunch of times, something which avid didn't achieve.
I do know someone who does happily use Premiere though. Think he's pulled off a couple of features with it. (He directs and edits)
Maybe someone who uses these a bit more regularly has a more accurate, averaged out comparison.
I did get a chance to learn iMovie just last week, which was far easier to use than Avid, you can cut clips at exact frames (MM doesn't), and easily do everything you need for basic video editing. There wasn't a point at which i thought: 'damn i wish this program had more advanced features.', except that i did use FCP to capture footage, batch capturing made things a lot easier.
If you can afford Avid, it's a better all-round choice, particularly because you can learn the interface for their higher-end systems at the same time.
In saying that, the latest version of Premiere (Premiere Pro 1/1.5) is quite good for quick and dirty edits and rough cuts. I wouldn't go near earlier versions of Premiere though.
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I wouldn't go near earlier versions of Premiere though.
I edited a feature on Premiere 4.2... I wouldn't recommend it though :).
Now I'm using Avid Xpress Pro HD, and have rarely missed Premiere: the only real benefit over Avid was that it had better audio support... Avid expect you to export the audio to Pro Tools rather than use audio effects in Xpress Pro.
alright thx
