i'm quite new to video and.. i know the best of the best is Final cut but.. ehmm i don't like Apple and MacOs at all.. any chance to get something professional in Windows system?
Use Avid Xpress you can not go wrong it works at most
broadcast facillities. They will either use Avid of FCP. Alot of
people in the Post production, Video and Film industries
have a great deal invested in this Avid equipment it problalbly
an "old boys" thing. That advise is on a proffesional level. I
myself like sony vegas but its not popular amoung video
editing facillities so forget about getting hired as a Video
vegas editor. You can easially get work as an Avid or FCP
editor. Avid has Avid XPress pro, a great system to start with
and a direct competitor to Final cut pro, Avid has all the tools
of Final pro but final cut pro feels better and is more intuitive.
I have used them both and FCP is a magnitude easier to learn.
Avid has it advantages as well witch is acceptance. It was
in fact the best in the world till final cut started this war with
avid and pretty sure its winning. Not so much becuase of
features but more I think becuase of workflo and price and
avid use to play that limitations game, if you pay more you get
more peformance yet another version of program, theres only
one final cut pro there perfomance is always the best apple
offers. But for the PC Avid Media Composer or Avid Xpress is the
way to go, if your looking to go pro. Otherwise I myself like vegas.
Hi,
I second the motion for Avid... since most of the pros use it and its media management tools are quite good and reliable. If you do lots of HDV work then Vegas would be an excellent choice, just got to get used to the interface.
But let me remind you of this:
Editing is nothing more than puting the wright clip, with the wright length on the wright position on the timeline. The software is nothing more than a tool for getting that done.
If you can't get a good montage with, lets say, Windows Moviemaker, then Avid or Final Cut Pro or Premiere or others won't help you.
Avid is'nt easy to use and has, certainly for a beginner, a steap learningcurve.
I'm not advising you to use Windows Moviemaker but if you are new to editing and it is a hobby, start with easy to use software and discover what editing is all about. If you want to become a pro and wants to make money out of it, than Avid is certainly a good choice.
Software is just a tool for getting the work done.
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A Dutch Adobe After Effects and Premiere enthousiast.
If you want to work in the 'industry' Avid is the way to go. In any other case (for fun, your own business, etc.), you have more freedom and can choose the one that better fits to you. Premiere and Vegas both are very good programs, many people love Vegas but others (as me) are more comfortable with Premiere. Try it and make your own decision.
I beleive the original Premiere coders went off to design "the next best thing" after Premiere version 2 and for a very, very short time that product became "Truevision Edit" (it came with a dual stream nubus card, still have it somewhere!)... it was then bought by Macromedia and renamed "Keygrip" and it ran on both Macs and PCs. A year or so later it was sold to Apple and redeveloped as Final Cut.
So, there isn't really that much difference between Premiere and FCP. People only rubbish Premiere because Final Cut has the bigger market but I remember the day when Premiere was king of the desktop editors.
I use a Mac, so therefore FCP but I would be happy to recommend Premiere to the PC user. If, you have asperations of getting broadcast work you would be better off using Avid... you then have the choice of crossing over to the Mac using the one application... personally, having used Avid Media Composer on a PC and a Mac I found the Mac version to be more stable... but that could just be my Mac bias!
With regards to all the statements that "Avid is the way to go in the industry".. I know of at least 10 high-end London post houses selling their '4' Avid suites and re-kitting with '10' finalCutPro suites. It's just a matter of time before the balance is equalled (if it isn't already). And all my old-time 3 machine BetaSP editor friends who have just mastered a computer and Avid are now having to side-line into FCP!
There will be a couple of interesting announcements from apple and avid early next year... my bet is that people should look to learn FCP over the Avid interface ;-)
oldschool guy.
Last edited by oldschool; October 5, 2006 at 00:41.
It's a matter of preference, once againg, what makes more sence to you, one thing, FCP and avid is a standard for many TOO many reasons, I myself love vegas, so all most of my editing is done in vegas then I exported in to avid and make final adjustments...for many reasons. I'm just confortable with this work flow, and use to it.
I just went through what you are going through at the moment (Getting started with video editing for fun and home video). I tried several apllications,starting with Pinnacle studio, Vegas, Premiere Element and Premiere Pro. Right from the back I do not recommend Pinnacle studio for anybody. Just writing the name make me feel like throwing up. Vegas and Element were OK in my book but I much prefer Premiere pro. I do agree with other comments that the learning curve is steep... very steep. But when you have pass the first hump every thing become easier as the learning process become incremental. I did not want to start learning an application only start over again down the road because the first one did not meet my need anymore. What I like with Premiere Pro is the compatibilty of the software with other applications i.e. After effects, Encore DVD, and multitude of plug ins. Also, you can find all kind of tutorials on the net to get you started with the fancyer stuff.
I can't comment on the Avid aplication since I have never used it and NO, I don't work for Adobe ; )
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