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Mac Better Than Windows - FCP vs. Premiere Pro??

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Can someone clear me up whats so great about editing on a mac and final cut? I mean cant it be done on a windows machine and Premiere pro?
 
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Can someone clear me up whats so great about editing on a mac and final cut? I mean cant it be done on a windows machine and Premiere pro?

Everyone just a preference. Most people here in these forums enjoy Mac OS. Most of us will dual boot with Windows as well as Mac. They each have their benefits.
 
The biggest benefit of using Mac OS for video editing, is the ProRes family of codecs. There's simply no (free) equivalent on Windows. ProRes comes "out of the box" and is widely used for production and delivery.

I've used ProRes ever since it was launched, and I'll still use it until broadcasters and clients want something else.

Premiere Pro is basically the same whether you're on Mac or Windows. You get CUDA and OpenCL acceleration on both platforms.

While FCP 7 still works, it really shows it age when it comes to format and codec support. And the fact you can't make timelines bigger than 2K resolution. Not many will need more than 2K anyway, but for those of us who do theatrical releases, it's been a major pita.

Premiere can work with any resolution it seems, and it's very good at handling different codecs and file formats. I only wish they could get timecode embedded on SDI output to work.


As for FCPX, I'm not too familiar with it. Yet. I've used it on a couple of small projects, but that's back when it was brand new and painstakingly slow on my old school Mac Pro. It works a lot better on a computer with newer CPUs (any Mac mini, MacBook, iMac and the latest Mac Pro with i5/i7/last gen XEON CPUs) than it does on a dual CPU Mac Pro 2009! Even the Mac mini I have gave me a better experience of FCPX than my Mac Pro.

I can't say why or how - it's just the way it works.



I really like the timeline of FCPX. The way you're not bound to tracks, but rather it automatically move the clips away if needed and other smart editing tools. I do not like FCPX when it comes to mixing sound, simple color correction or text. It's a major pain to work with.

The color correction tools makes absolutely no sense to me, but then again, if you're not used to dedicated color correction tools you might not even think about it.
 
Can someone clear me up whats so great about editing on a mac and final cut? I mean cant it be done on a windows machine and Premiere pro?

Having used FCP7, FCPX (only used recent releases), and Premiere Pro (hardly at all really)...they are all just tools. Some sharper here or there, all lacking something here or there. They are all a means to an end. I prefer FCPX, having edited my first national project (a PSA), on FCPX just recently. I liked the ease of making changes as the requests came in. Not to say I couldn't get close to the same from FCP7 or Premiere, but they again are just another way of getting things done. Having never used the early iterations of FCPX, I can only see the people who slam FCPX today are basing their judgements on early versions; not what it has become. To sum up, use what you like, your not going to loose out using one over the other in the Emmy or Academy Awards department.
 
Yeah I came here from almost the same reason video editing and graphics. And since I turned to Mac OS I can tell Its better and I dont mean editing software because I use Premiere just like I was in windows but the "Work Flow!" Its a way better system is more stable and the usage is better adjusted for that kind of tasks. On windows Adobe was using both graphic cards I have installed (HD 3000 and Nvidia 540M) and after few hours of compressing it was hot as hell, Os X use only HD3000 and in maximum stress it's much cooler and silent + I dont see any difference in performance (it seems that GF 540M is not better than HD3000 after all so I dont know why it was installed in my laptop anyway) Even in games like Diablo 3 or StarCraft 2 performance is no differance (even better Diablo 3 on OS X runs with 30 fps in High details somtimes go below like 20-25 fps in very overcrowded actions and on Windows it was completally unplayble on my laptop had like 10-15 fps :0). Haven't checked how FCP works I'll try It later.
 
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