Premiere, Vegas, or Avid?

Avid is probably too expensive I would guess.

I'm gonna get some trials this week.

I will let you know on my findings.

11/17/2008 2:29:45 AM

the only way to go



but realistically, premiere is pretty awesome. i personally use final cut pro, as i'm on a mac.

11/17/2008 2:36:10 AM

insert mac/homosexuality joke here

11/17/2008 2:37:58 AM

I've heard that the Premiere CS4 is improved over CS3 by leaps and bounds.

[Edited on November 17, 2008 at 2:40 AM. Reason : fghhfhddfh]

11/17/2008 2:39:41 AM

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11/17/2008 6:51:11 AM

Premiere CS4 is the way to go if you've settled on the Adobe product. FINALLY has the addition of background rendering, something major programs have been doing for YEARS.

Final Cut is alright if you're on a Mac, but my experience was that to be using an 8-core, $13K Mac Pro less than a year old it was as slow as dirt. Just stupid slow, particularly at rendering in comparison to my measly Core2Duo dual core with premiere CS3.

If you're working in a production environment, however, the lab at MU introduced me to SpeedEdit, from NewTek. Fastest program I have ever used. Ever. I put such a spanking on Premiere CS3 and Final Cut it was just shameful. It's only drawback is that it doesn't integrate with After Effects as well as Premiere (I use Premiere and AF on a regular basis and the CS3 project bridge was a great thing - just leave both programs open and rendered (!) changes automatically show up in both programs.) If you've got a multi-core system the benefits are simply incredible - give it a try and see if you like it.

My favorite is the instant rendering system. Anything that touches the storyboard or the timeline goes into the background render cue. My processor sits at 100% the entire time I'm working in the program (obviously with a super low interrupt so that nothing bogs down.) But when I drop in an effect it's ready within a few seconds, and when I go to render output there is no rendering. You can even set your output format from the new project screen and it will convert the timeline on the fly. I have rendered 10-15 minute flash or MP4 videos near instantly. Just export, pick a folder, and viola - no waiting to convert or render effects - it's already been done in the background. You just have to try it to see...

11/17/2008 7:10:11 AM

Quote :

"Final Cut is alright if you're on a Mac, but my experience was that to be using an 8-core, $13K Mac Pro less than a year old it was as slow as dirt. Just stupid slow, particularly at rendering in comparison to my measly Core2Duo dual core with premiere CS3."

that's because it's not properly multithreaded right now, so it doesn't matter how many cores you have

wait until the next release that (should) coincide with snow leopard

or make a render farm out of a bunch of mac minis that's what we do

11/17/2008 7:15:14 AM