"not flexible enough to accommodate the experimental work we wanted to support"
this doesn't mean anything either. is a steenbeck flexible? Is a guillotine splicer and rewinds flexible? Do you really think experimental work has not been made on FCP X? On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Esorp <es...@aol.com> wrote: > After considerable discussion at my institution we chose to migrate to > Premiere. While there were some amongst us who were quite comfortable and > enthusiastic about FCPX, the consensus was that it was not flexible enough > to accommodate the experimental work we wanted to support nor compatible > with much of what the industry was doing. I started with an early version > of Premiere, quite loved it, resented FCP until I grew to quite like it, > and am now quite comfortable with the newest version of Premiere. Our > students have had no trouble picking it up, indeed there are some fine > tutorials on Lynda.com that are designed for users of FCP7. (Students, in > general, have no trouble picking just about anything up.) Advantages- > Premiere ingests just about everything- no need to fret about converting > H.264's, or MTO's; it handles multi-layered structures without the need for > rendering (on a decent machine); much of the interface is similar to FCP7. > Disadvantages: CS6 has some very annoying ways of handling markers and > nested sequences, but these seem to have been addressed in the Creative > Cloud version. And this leads to the major factor, elicited by an earlier > respondent: the pricing structure for the Creative Cloud version. You can > no longer just buy the software; you have to lease it, an addiction every > bit as nefarious as smack. The argument is that one doesn't have to > constantly upgrade to resolve software issues- but this comes at the > considerable cost of a demoralizing dependency. We managed to get some > kind of institutional deal from Adobe, but i don't know the details on > this. I know of a number of other artists who bought their own copies of > FCP7 or CS6 and are just sticking with them, but that won't work if you've > got an IT department that insists, as they all do, on making maintenance > the primary consideration.. > > Peter Rose > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > >
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