On Sep 30, 2006, at 8:12 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > That's true in advertising post production as well. I can't recall > ever > seeing anyone using Preemiere. It used to be all Avid, but now you see > a lot of editors using FCP.
I'm writing a book right now about digital video. We did an informal survey of working video shooters/editors and it seems that among the high-end users it's a shootout between FCP and Premiere, with far more using FCP. This is surprising to me since Avid not only offers theirs for both Windows and Mac (FCP is Mac only, Premiere is Windows only), but Avid also has a free version with most of the features you would need. It's available for both platforms. You can download the free Avid video editor at: http://www.avid.com/freedv/ There are also some good tutorials free on their site. To me this is damned smart marketing. The free version does most things, but if you want to have all of the pro features and tech support you have to upgrade to one of their two app packages. BTW, after our survey we're leaning the book toward FCP and Mac, although we will be including Premiere, Avid, and a few others just to be fair. Bob "Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." -- Mark Twain -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
