I currently use adobe premier and for the most part am happy with its performance but i have been told many times that the kind of programs i should be proficient at are avid and other high end editors if i want to be recognized as a more serious editor? Do any pros use premier? I have considered making the switch not expecting the differences to be so drastic. Any opinions? In an unrelated topic I have heard that certain file shaers are more specialized for certain searches x for rare music etc. are there any that specialize in software or video that are safe? thanks gentlemen
Yes Professinals use "Adobe Premier Pro" and it can Do pretty Much anything that Avid Can do...... Also AVID has very Limited File Type Support so you Can pretty Much only edit DV AVI files and Uncompressed AVI files and Quicktime Files with it and it has No Support for other More Popular Formats.... We Use Avid at the Studio were I work at But we also use Premier and Vegas Video and Canopus Edius and Pinnacle Liquid Edition depending on who is working and what they are doing...... I own all of these editing programs as I use them at work but I still prefer to use Vegas Video and Adobe Premier cuz they are More Versitile for the Type of Stuff that i like to do and support more Input and output Formats Like Mpeg-2 and Dolby AC3...... Cheers
as far as premiere pro goes, it is considered a professional editor, especially when you compare it to other consumer video editing programs. There's a reason those cost $99, and premiere is around $500. as far as avid goes, there is definately plenty avid does that premiere doesn't. not more in the way of features, but more of ease of use. The interface is pretty different, and the technique and process used for editing is pretty different. The basic avid xpress is a consumer level version, but most film and video studios use full blown avid setups, such as Avid Symphonies, which can cost over $100,000 with all the featurs. as far as file types, Minion is definately right, there isn't as many support for files. They don't accept computer video files like WMV, and other ones like that. The reason they don't is because avid systems are meant to have video captured to them, edit that video, then export. avid systems aren't meant to import small video files and edit from there. Avid can capture and import the standard DV type of files, but depending on hardware (such as the MoJo) you have the option to even capture and edit full blown uncompressed HD, which has some ridiculous data rate. So in conclusion, for the standard run-of-the-mill editing, premiere pro is very good and will probably work fine. unless you really want to get professional and start spending serious money, then look into avid. but for most purposes, premiere should be sufficient.
