Are Red And Apple In Bed?

[ChristopherKenworthy]

The last time I used Premiere it was quite painful, so I put it to one side, and so much time has passed that I didn't even know it supported 4K these days. I had no idea. Yes, Apple have to respond to this. I use FCP every day, but I'd switch to Premiere if it meant I could edit my Red footage at 4K. Apple must be working on a 4K solution for the next release.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Premiere used to suck bigtime - I quit using it at v5.2, I just couldn't take it any more. So I switched to Vegas and was quite happy for a while. I moved over to FCP since last year at this time, it was the best solution for my HVX I was buying (I was already a Mac and PC workflow, so jumping platforms wasn't a big deal). I also found that DVD Studio Pro was a lot better than anything I was using on the Windows side of things (Encore, Vegas, DVD Lab, etc..). Recently, I've been exposed to Premiere Pro v1.51 and v2 recenly and it has become quite a nice and reliable NLE. Adobe brining their production suite to the Mac is a great move on their part and will give Apple some serious competitoin. IMO, the weak link is Adobe Encore -- hopefully the new version is a lot better and can compete with DVDSP.

 

[Steve Freebairn]

apparently Adobe was able to achieve the performance in OS X that they have been hoping to achieve in XP (according to the Creative Cow interview). If the Production Studio can make as big of a leap this time as they did from 1.5 to 2.0, then Encore, Premiere, and After Effects should be really amazing. I'm really hoping that Encore is now Blu-ray and Hd-dvd capable. This should help Apple get their act together and get real support for HD formats on optical disks (none of the half baked HD DVD on DVD stuff like right now).