A lot of the pro editors who work on major motion pictures and big dollar television commercials use Avid. But the high-end Avid system includes some hardware as well as the software. I think it's available for Mac or PC. Premiere used to be available for Mac. Paul On Sep 30, 2006, at 11:47 AM, Bob Shell wrote:
> > 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
