From: Kyle Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I agree with you on all points, but you tell me then...what program should a
person/lab choose as a video test program that has both Mac and PC versions
allowing a comparison across platforms?????
That's what I thought. Premiere (as sucky as it is) is the only choice.
Not at all. What about Avid Xpress or Symphony?
The point I was trying to make is that when you're talking about video editing, cross-platform comparisons are meaningless -- particularly when talking about Premiere.
A "fair comparison" *would* be to compare Premiere on the PC and FCP on the Mac. If I take the same project (raw footage, assets etc) on Premiere on the PC and FCP on the Mac, which one is going to be able to turn it into a finished work of art the fastest/easiest/most reliably? That's what I want to know.
This is not a criticism of your learned comments so much as it is a criticism of these sorts of benchmarks in general. Comparing Premiere on the Mac to Premiere on the PC is not in any way illuminative, since we already know that Premiere is no longer supported on the Mac, wasn't updated for the latest hardware, and was a VERY slow program on the Mac even BEFORE it was discontinued.
So the ONLY thing a Premiere PC v. Mac competition tells me is that Premiere sucks on the Mac. Thanks, but I knew that. And I know who's fault it is -- Adobe's, not Apple's.
In the field of video editing, speed/reliability/features are all that matter. The cost of even a top-o-the-line system is peanuts compared to the money that can be earned editing even ONE professional project, so the cost is irrelevant also. If you can show me that using FCP on a G5 will let me get the work done (say) twice as fast I would doing the same work on a PC using Premiere, my next purchase would be a G5 and FCP every time. The time I would lose in retraining would be more than made up by the jump in efficiency/productivity.
I believe this is one of the main reasons why FCP has single-handedly turned Apple into the overwhelmingly dominant video system king virtually overnight. Apple always did "okay" in this market but nowadays it's almost unthinkable to edit a serious professional project on anything else unless you're very locked into a fleet of systems, under a no-escape lease or just afraid of change. If it wasn't for Avid I don't think PCs would even be in this market as a serious contender.
_Chas_
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