Premier Pro Right For Me?

Question

As a former Final Cut Pro 7 multicam user I am now faced with a dilemma; I have changed and AVC HD format which FCP7 very well apple. Moreover, I am not interested in switching over to FCP X since I do not want to upgrade to Mavericks OS X where in I have heard about 50% of professionals not pleased with the performance very. The house, I must consider another avenue of professional video.
My film in AVC HD from Canon pro cameras chemicals are looked at at the media composer, grass Valley Eddie's Pro seven, and now Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. I currently own adobe Ps CS5 and lLr 5 in the room am guessing that premiere Pro is my best. I use a Mac book Pro Retina 2.7 GHz, 16 Gb 1600 ram, with solid-state hard drive an external thunderbolt SATA drive in a thunderbolt/SATA dock with most of my editing being read or more cameras in multicam.
Thus, is Premier Pro right for me? And, does anyone know if there is a cross grade discount?
Please feel free to ask any questions and look forward to many responses especially those who might already have made the same changeover.

Answer 1

As a "cloud" user, well ... you mileage may vary ... but for the single monthly fee one does get rather a lot ... for that, one gets, if one wants:
Premiere Pro NLE, always newest updates;
Speedgrade; color grading program, doesn't need to "export" anything out from P-Pro to work on a project, just using a menu item in P-Pro to go directly to grading in Sg;
AfterEffects, for fx, titling, color corrections/distortions, whatever; again, send directly from P-Pro without export/render needed;
Adobe Media Encoder for choosing output formats/codecs/specifics;
Photoshop for its ability to work on specific frames, stills, and now video footage internally;
Prelude, to do your project uploads and prep-work in;
... heck, Illustrator if you want ... whatever.
I'm currently running what WOULD have cost me a couple thousand a year (figuring most taking say an 18 month "update" cycle) in Adobe software for $588/year. I'm not complaining ... I have spent near that most years of the last decade with Adobe for simply Lightroom and Photoshop. I simply could not have justified the number of Adobe suite products I use daily now prior to the Cloud. So, I'm not upset with them ... rather, for me, it's been a huge benefit.
There are problems with Adobe software too, as with FCP ... as I've read the FCP forums with people cussing out the newest iteration there. Yep, that happens. Adobe is working very hard at integrating prep, project uploading/management, NLE, fx, grading, and out-put into a process without "borders" ... where each application works on common files and projects without needing any export/import and cross-conversions/transcoding/you-name-it.
This isn't handled perfectly yet ... I've been one of the ones with a totally crashed project just last week. But mostly ... it makes it a HECK of a lot easier for me to work without having to work out the details of which codec to trans-code into to get the NLE to do it's best work, then ... how to get that proxied or whatever into an fx program ... then how to get that BACK into the NLE for final editing ... then exported out to a grading program for tonality/color ... you get the picture.
I've given Adobe some hades, but then ... got right back to working. And all in all, it is working for me, as a dang newbie, and looking good. But then, I'm only working .mov files. Coupled with stills and other things, but ... all working mostly smoothly. Through several programs.
Now ... there are some people here on the Adobe forums who ONLY use say CS6, do everything including tonality/color/titling in there, and don't want anything else, no audio programs, no specialized grading of fx programs, and for them ... the "Cloud" wouldn't be sensible. Why spend the money for something that does everything you're going to do? I understand that. It's not what will work for me, but who cares? It works fine for them.
So ... will you be wanting/needing to use a color grading program, perhaps an audio editor? fx? If "yes", looking at the whole CC 'Suite' of products might be wise. If not ... just get P-Pro CS6 would probably work fine.
Neil