FCPX vs Premiere 5.5 - Anyone use both?

Is FCPX really faster?
or is it just hype?
Premiere 5.5 seems like it would be much better with an Nvidia card, but the minute you start introducing 3rd party hardware to your system, problems are bound to happen.
Opinions?
- N

I was responding to someone who had been unhappy with Final Cut Pro for four years.
Sorry, but where exactly did I say I'd been unhappy with FCP for the past four years? Talk about taking things out of context, what you wrote about my opinion of FCP 6/7 is a complete fabrication.
At the risk of stating the obvious, competing software products are sometimes ahead of the competition, sometimes behind. It's called swings and roundabouts. When PPro 5.0 came out, it appears some people thought it had features ahead of FCP 7. Given my knowledge of and investment in FCP, I was happy to wait, confident in the reasonable assumption (particularly given Apple's criticism of Adobe for being slow in updating Photoshop to 64-bit) that FCP 8 would at long last itself be 64-bit and that the app would find some way to off-load rending to the GPU or some other accelerated approach. Anything else would have been a welcome bonus.
But as I stated in my post, there clearly is now not going to be an FCP 8 and Apple has said nothing to date about fixing the essential features that are missing from FCP X. So I am not going to hope for the best and a wing and a prayer and that Apple will deliver the functionality I need. I look at Adobe and Avid and I can see their products have that now. And judging by the comments on this board (and specifically the title of this thread), there are several other people in a similar position to myself.
However, because FCP X does not suit our needs I see no reason to slag off a user who is looking around at the competition and shares his thoughts on this thread with others who might be of the same frame of mind.
However, perhaps you "know" when FCP X will be able to open my existing .fcp files. Perhaps you also "know" when I can bulk import files from my database using XML. And perhaps you "know" when I can expect to see Chapter Markers restored so that I can still burn DVDs for my customers that pay the bills. If you do, I am sure there are many people here who'd love to hear.

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I just got an mac book pro and I am trying to decide what to do with my iPhoto library that is on my old G4 eMac. I'm wondering if the best (and safest) plan would be to transfer that library to the new machine, bring it into iPhoto and then import the entire library into Aperture.
On second thought I wondered if it would be a good idea to leave everything in iPhoto and just open images in Aperture only when I want the extra editing tools... using Aperture for keeping all the "prime" photos and iPhoto for snap shots and iPhone pictures.
And... is it even possible to import the library from another machine directly into Aperture?
Thanks in advance,
bd

Pick one and stick with it. They don't actually integrate very much.
Aperture and iPhoto are entirely different applications that work in very different ways.
The only communication between the two is as follows:
Aperture is able to parse the iPhoto Library to allow it to import the contents while stacking the Originals and Modified versions, preserving metadata and so forth.
Aperture can share its Previews with the iLife apps, including iPhoto.
That's it.
So, specifically, what interaction there is between the two is designed to facilitate migration from iPhoto to the more powerful app. After that, iPhoto has exactly the same relationship to the Aperture Library as, say, Pages or iMovie.
iPhoto has no knowledge of, and knows nothing of how the Aperture Library works. It cannot read the Aperture library.
So if you decide to try this:
using Aperture for keeping all the "prime" photos and iPhoto for snap shots and iPhone pictures.
You'll end up using two apps to manage two different sets of photos, with twice the complications. Aperture is not an "external editor" and can't be used as such.
Think: Writing your novel in Word and TextEdit at the same time. "I'll write this chapter in Word, this paragraph in TE and then back to word..."
What of you wanted to sync your Photos back to your Phone? Which library will you use? You can't use both.
And... is it even possible to import the library from another machine directly into Aperture?
The routine would be to move the Library to the new machine and them process it into Aperture. Then trash the unwanted iPhoto Library.
Regards
TD

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Very long time professional user of Premiere on PC platform.
If (and I mean "if") I change from PC to MAC and install CS3, will I be in "very familiar territory" (apart from the OS of course).
I am considering this major step because I may want to run FCP on the same machine. Anyone know if they would co-exist?

I am running both CS3 and FCS2 (FCP6) on a dual Quad MacPro and am not having any issues. To be honest, I haven't had the chance to run PPro that much yet 'cause I'm working on jobs I started in FCP, but the little non-taxing things I have done in PPro have gone well. PPro behaves just as it does on my PC's and seems 'snappy'. Haven't tried every function yet, especially exporting, etc. but seems good so far and identical to PC version in every way I've tried it so far. I think you'll be comfortable in PPro on Mac. I think you'll like OSX too!
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I'm in the market for a Laptop MAC solution to GPU accelerated editing. Because of multi-client workflow needs, I need to edit HD video with both FCP-X and ADOBE CS5.5 Premiere. The only GPU capable Graphics Cards that seem to satisfy both "camps" are from NVIDIA - GTX285 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
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~mars9

How do you plan on using a PCIe card with a laptop? Via a Thunderbolt PCIe adapter? I can't help with that. In fact, I didn't think those adapters were even out yet.
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Singenu wrote:
I tought about looking in Monitor Activity to see what happens...
Well, when I start working (should I say try to work with FCPX, activity monitor in the %processor column for FCPX jumps rapidly over 100% and reaches more than 200% ??? What the **** is that ?
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Regarding the question of creating a new admin user: while it sits in the same system, it may help if the problem is caused by some user-specific preferences or settings. Not likely in your case, since you seem to have reinstalled from scratch, but still it is worth a try. It takes 5 minutes and may help pinpoint the problem.

Has Anyone Used Adobe Premiere 6.5 On A Core 2 Duo iMac ?

I use both Final Cut Express 3.0 and Premiere 6.5 on my old eMac.
Although Apple says it is not supported, a number of iMac owners have successfully used FCE on Intel iMacs using Rosetta. They also have the option of upgrading to the UB FCE 3.5.
With Premiere there is no such possibility as Adobe stopped producing it for Macs a couple of years ago.
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Ian.

Hi,
I wanted to clarify something. When I asked about Premiere 6.5 running, I meant the Mac version. I know with if I run Windows on the Macbook, I should be able to use the Windows version of it, but my question was for the Mac platform.
Hopefully somebody out there knows.
Thanks again

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