Alternatives to Premiere

Does anybody use anything other than Premiere for editing? More to the point, does anybody use anything else AND is happy with it?

Cheers


Chris 'kiwiranger' Parke

 

I've used Final Cut Pro for a few jobs recently and was very impressed with it.
Got a feeling it might be mac only tho.

 

Mac only? Even better, as I'm going to be doing some Mac work in the near future.

Thanks

Anybody else

 

With a PC, used to use an old Rainbow Runner G-Series and Ulead MediaStudio Pro. Nice and easy to use and I thought I was very happy with it... But MediaStudio Pro was definitely not fast even on a 1.3ghz machine at the time.

Moved to a Matrox RT2500 and Premiere 6.0 (now 6.5) and I'm very happy with it. Quality of output is exceptionally good.

Took a while to get used to Premiere - but I wouldn't go back to MediaStudio Pro...

 

TAKE A LOOK AT AVID EXPRESS ITS USED FORE BROADCAST AND FILM

 

My favourite is Final Cut Pro - around £700.

And athough I've edited on Avids and Quantel kit for years FCP is a lot better than any other edit system(in terms of price and features)

Premiere has been around for a while, FCP is a newcomer from Apple (designed by the guy that designed Premier), Avid Xpress DV is good, but is a lot more money.

FCP will run any modern Mac, but not on Windoze.
Premiere will run on PC or Mac.
Avid Xpress DV will run on PC or Mac G4.

 

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