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Premiere Back on Mac

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the back-in-the-saddle dept.

woof69 writes "After dropping OS X support for Premiere some time in 2003, Adobe is bringing it back in the new Adobe Production Studio. The new software includes After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Encore DVD, and Soundbooth, and will be available for Apple's Intel-based computers in mid-2007; an updated version of the Windows suite will ship at the same time. Does Final Cut have a fight on its hands?"

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  1. Switchers? by phalse+phace · · Score: 4, Informative

    I can't imagine that too many people would switch to this from Final Cut Pro.

    And for those wondering, this will NOT be a Universal Binary. It has been built from scratch and will only run on Intel-based Macs.

    Adobe's press release.

  2. Re:Cinelerra by rduke15 · · Score: 4, Informative
    How does After Effects and Final Cut Pro compare to Cinelerra?


    They don't.

    Final Cut Pro compares to Avid. After Effects is for effects, as you might guess from the name. People editing in FCP or Avid sometimes use After Effects to render some special effects before re-importing them into their editor.

    As for Cinelerra, I would guess that no professional editor would have ever even heard the name, let alone have a clue about what it is. Well, even I couldn't quite figure out what it was supposed to be last time I looked at their site. Apparently also some sort of special effects rendering thing, except it cannot import from or export to your editing program, so I'm not sure what it might be used for.

    A little experiment: search the Cinelerra site (which includes the documentation) for various very specific keywords which would be relevant for any professional film/video editing program:

    Time code stuff:
    http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aheroinewarri or.com+drop-frame
    http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aheroinewarri or.com+ndf
    http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aheroinewarri or.com+%22time+code%22
    http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aheroinewarri or.com+timecode

    Edit lists stuff:
    http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aheroinewarri or.com+edl
    http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aheroinewarri or.com+ale
    http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aheroinewarri or.com+flex
    http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aheroinewarri or.com+%22edit+list%22

    NLE programs:
    http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aheroinewarri or.com+avid
    http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aheroinewarri or.com+%22final+cut+pro%22

    Now try the same searches on the avid.com site.