OMG, not another "which's the best editor" topic!.

[Vivaldi]

Title says it all, though this time it's more out of my own curiousty than a need to purchese some new software.


Anyway, this time it's about the difference between final cut pro, and windows editors like premire and vegas. Somebody had asked on a different forum what the best editor was, I gave them the usual lowdown between vegas and APP, but then someone came in and said FCP still beats all. I was wondering what you peoples opinions are. I googled for a review since I have no experice with FCP, and they were saying it beats anything on windows hands down, even ending by saying "This is certinly the most powerful editor on the planet.) Does FCP even compete with Avid?

[Kariudo]

usually the answer to the "what is the best [insert thing here]?" questions are that "best" is a completely subjective term. What may be "best" for one person may not be the best choice for someone else.

My guess is that it's an FCP fanboy/girl (ie. someone who should be ignored as they have probably not used anything besides FCP) who said that FCP beats all.

For amvs, I prefer editing [with APP 1.5] on windows (haven't edited on a mac myself) because of avisynth and vdubmod (which pretty much makes filetype compatibility a non-issue.)

[LivingFlame]

If I'm working on Windows, I very much prefer Sony Vegas Pro. It's just always felt a lot less clunky to me than Adobe Premiere (which is what I used first). The workflow seems smoother and Vegas seems to be less taxing on my system.

If I'm working on my Mac though, I use Premiere. It's mostly because I was able to get more useful programming with the Adobe Production Premium CS3 package than I could get with the Final Cut Studio 2 package.

(The CS3 package came with Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Soundbooth, Encore, Flash, and Bridge. The Final Cut Studio package comes with Final Cut Pro 6, Motion 2, Soundtrack Pro 2, and DVD Studio 4. It has a few other things with it, but they are things that shouldn't even be standalone programs (Compressor, LiveType, Color).)

Add to that the fact that, after educational discounts on both packages, Final Cut Studio costs $699 and CS3 costs $599, and it was a pretty simple choice for me.

I have used Final Cut Express (not Pro, but I assume they aren't vastly different from each other), and I have to say, it's amazingly similar to Premiere. If you know Premiere, you can pick up Final Cut within half an hour of using it. I don't know why so many people claim that it's so much more powerful than Premiere, but I couldn't see a difference. They both seemed equally stable to me, though I still find Vegas more stable overall.

I'd still like to get my hands on Avid, though, just to play around in it for a while. I really want to know what makes it worth so much more than everything else out there (as far as NLEs are concerned). $2500? Dang.....

[JaddziaDax]

link.... >.>

however the "best" think to do is get trials of the programs you want and try them out and see which you like best :3