Video editors...good morning! Ive seen the light. (I saw it a long time ago). I made the jump this weekend to editing on Adobe Premiere Pro. Ive actually used Adobe Premiere since its early stages in 2001, and been using Premiere Pro for some years as a secondary edit platform. Its just become my main one --- for now. I am not a fan of pointing out a specific project that did me in, but a number of client projects suffered from FCP X program glitches, and the one that ended my plan to continue using X was former Vice President Al Gore. I was on a tight deadline, with little wiggle room. Id complete a new version of a story I was reporting that Mr. Gore had to introduce live, and Id hit export, and would read that the export was completed, yet no file would show up. I would happily admit my errors, but that one was a massive issue. How can I export a project that says it has exported when it hasnt? Also, during one of the final versions of the story before airtime, 30 percent of my project disappeared. That is just scratching the surface of the issues that project faced in post. I didnt even have time to discuss it with a friend running the project, because I was so busy trying to work around program glitches so that when Gore introduced the piece, it was there. I had some backup plans that I kicked into effect, but that was too high profile a project, and while I did what all of us do, and made sure to make deadline and recover, I vowed to stop relying on a program that just still hasnt reincorporated all the features needed for professional edits. When clients hire me, they expect a professional product, and I expect it too. Anything less than that is unacceptable, so this switch just had to be done, lest I just put another project into FCP X, and have to deal with some major failure. Dont get me wrong, its a beautiful and fast program, and can produce national quality work in a short time span. ...and it can destroy it in the same time span. Im sure there is some operator error to blame too, but Im finding a much more solid stable system with Premiere, so FCP X now becomes my background program. I will use AVID as well for higher end movie projects, and work that requires farming out of things like audio engineering for big theater displays.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 10:36:39 +0000
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