Premiere Back on Mac 161
woof69 writes "After dropping OS X support for Premiere some time in 2003, Adobe is bringing it back in the new
Adobe Production Studio. The new software includes After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Encore DVD, and Soundbooth, and will be available for Apple's Intel-based computers in mid-2007; an updated version of the Windows suite will ship at the same time.
Does Final Cut have a fight on its hands?"
not unless... (Score:3, Informative)
Switchers? (Score:5, Informative)
And for those wondering, this will NOT be a Universal Binary. It has been built from scratch and will only run on Intel-based Macs.
Adobe's press release [adobe.com].
I hope you're kidding (Score:4, Informative)
The simple answer is no. I bought my Mac specifically for Final Cut because Premiere was such a miserable editor. I cut a feature on Premiere and easily lost 1/3 of my time to crashes. I haven't used the latest versions but the one I used, 5.5, was lightyears behind Final Cut Pro. If you asked me to cut another film on Premiere I'd rather work fast food than do it. Final Cut is a joy to work with. They are porting Premiere back to Mac because they are loosing ground to Final Cut but what they don't understand is it isn't the Mac OS people are after but Final Cut itself. Don't even bother porting it because editors that have switched are lost forever. Better to make it more stable and add features. Anyone one on Final Cut isn't likely to switch. Why go back to a Yugo when you already own a Ferrari. I'm sure there are Premiere fans that will boast of it's stability. If you're happy have fun. Personally I'm thrilled with Final Cut and would never use Premiere for any reason. It made my life a living hell so if they are loosing customers it's their own fault for putting out such a lousy editor.
Re:Cinelerra (Score:5, Informative)
They don't.
Final Cut Pro compares to Avid. After Effects is for effects, as you might guess from the name. People editing in FCP or Avid sometimes use After Effects to render some special effects before re-importing them into their editor.
As for Cinelerra, I would guess that no professional editor would have ever even heard the name, let alone have a clue about what it is. Well, even I couldn't quite figure out what it was supposed to be last time I looked at their site. Apparently also some sort of special effects rendering thing, except it cannot import from or export to your editing program, so I'm not sure what it might be used for.
A little experiment: search the Cinelerra site (which includes the documentation) for various very specific keywords which would be relevant for any professional film/video editing program:
Time code stuff:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aheroinewarr
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aheroinewarr
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aheroinewarr
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aheroinewarr
Edit lists stuff:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aheroinewarr
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aheroinewarr
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aheroinewarr
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aheroinewarr
NLE programs:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aheroinewarr
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aheroinewarr
Now try the same searches on the avid.com site.
Re:Upgrade Path (Score:1, Informative)
What's that? You don't have the DVD? That's what I thought...you weren't using the paid version anyway...
Re:Cinelerra (Score:3, Informative)