From: Kyle Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>I have a very hard time understanding that a semi-serious magazine like
Macworld would choose an outdated application (Adobe Premiere) as a
benchmark at all.
What else should they use? Final Cut is Mac only and it was a video app
test.
I can think of three reasons why MacWorld should have used FCP to compare against Premiere on the PC.
1. FCP is what Mac users use. Premiere is no longer a viable option on the Mac, and interest in it has dropped like a stone. Since very few people (and almost no professionals) are using Premiere on a Mac any longer, what is the point of showing except to "discover" the rather obvious fact that Premiere runs dog slow on a Mac?
2. FCP 4 (particularly now that Apple has updated the libraries for the G5) runs RINGS around Premiere. I would think that people who are shopping for a Mac (or a PC) for video-editing would be interested to know that.
3. I think it's important to show that a program DESIGNED for the Mac runs very fast and well on a Mac, and a program DESIGNED for a PC tends not to run as well. Again, I think this information would be of high interest to people interested in video editing. If I knew for a fact that FCP on a dual G5 was (let's say) twice as fast as Premiere on dual Athlon, that would make a tremendous difference in what my next purchase was going to be, even if I was currently PC and Premiere-based. Contrary to PC myth, people are NOT just interested in raw speed with no context; they are much MORE interested in whether that speed can be USED productively for their situation. So I think it's irrelevant if you're not comparing the same program, as long as they do more or less the same thing (as FCP and Premiere do).
That's why iPhoto, iDVD, iMovie and iTunes kept getting positive mentions in the PC press even though they are (or were in the case of iTunes) exclusively for Mac users.
_Chas_
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