Originally posted by: LethalWolfe
Originally posted by: Hulk
Originally posted by: krackato
Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Cinema Tools, and OS X. God I hate Apple's prices, but if you're into video, their software is fantastic. I keep praying that their hardware business fails and they're forced to go x86. I'd be in heaven if that happened.
Have you done a lot of video editing with these programs? I do quite a bit of video editing and I've used FCP. It's okay but almost unusable for anyone trying to get any real work done since the Mac platform is so slow.
I'll take Vegas Video (beta 4 is very good) or MediaStudio Pro (beta 7 is amazing) any day. They are MUCH faster than FCP, offer better features by far (real time previews to tv, scrub to tv out, great built in titling, etc...) and are cheaper!
Even Premiere is superior to FCP (faster too) and it's slow as a dog compared to the two I mentioned above.
If you don't believe me, I've been running the following video editing benchmarking site for a few years now:
Video Editing Benches
So, saying the Mac is great at video editing is simply ridiculous.
Maybe someone can clear this up for me too. Why exactly is OS X superior to Win XP/Win2000? What does it DO? And don't tell me about stability or compatibility, my XP box NEVER crashes and I have NO problems installing scanners, card readers, TV tuners, firewire devices, etc...
ROFL that is by far the funniest thing I've read in a long, long time. Which app has taken the industry by storm? Which app are people dumping Avid for? What hardware do most of the Avid's out there run on? Which app can natively<sp?> handle 24p and is resolution independent?
Premiere better than FCP? ROFL! Premiere could quite possibly have the worst UI of any non-consumer NLE. I cut w/Premiere for a year before I stumbled upon a copy of FCP 2 at work. After 10 mintues (honestly, 10 minutes) I was in love. I waited a couple of months for a PowerMac update then I bought my first Mac and FCP and I've never looked back.
From what I've heard VV is getting better and handles audio better than any other NLE, but it's lacking in some fundamentals like media management and not being resolution indenpendent (I've got the VV4 beta on my PC but I haven't had a chance to play w/it yet).
With how much you are going on 'bout speed and benchmarks it sounds like you are doing a lot of compositing (and compositing != editing). Benchmarks can tell you how fast it renders video but they can't tell you how well it handles video or how good the UI is.
BTW, FCP can do RT previews to a monitor as well.
As for the stability isssues. In my personal and professional experience I haven't come across a PC based NLE that was more stable than a Mac based NLE.
Lethal
EDIT: Just so we don't keep rehashing old sh*t why doesn't everyone read this
Mac vs. PC and if you have something that hasn't been said yet feel free to post that in this thread.