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INDEXMoving from Final Cut pro X to Premiere
8 years, 11 months ago - Felix von Nida
Does anyone have any advice on making this transition easier? I'm wanting to move to Adobe and the whole thing seems pretty convoluted.
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8 years, 11 months ago - Mät King
Turn the computer on. Fire up the software. Mess around for a while. Dragging and dropping. Then look at some free tutorials (perhaps Creative Cow) or Lynda if you have a sub. Start a project, give yourself a deadline and start editing. Please do not get caught up in the paralysis by analysis school of learning a skill. Those where you have to be a guru or expert before you even start.
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8 years, 11 months ago - John Lubran
What Mat says. It's not rocket science if one is already competent on FCP. How to acquire Adobe Creative Suite is another matter. Personally I'd much prefer to own it rather than rent it and I regard the Cloud as spawn of Satan. That leaves you with price tag of over £2,000 or ducking and diving for free, if anarchy is ones thing.
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8 years, 11 months ago - Dan Selakovich
There's a thread here somewhere that devolves into everybody's favorite editing software. I don't find Adobe very intuitive, but that's me. I need to work every day for weeks before an editing system becomes like the dashboard of my car. I need lots of footage, and all the problems that might come with coverage and technical problems on a feature film to get any software down. I haven't worked with Premiere enough for that to happen. I much prefer Lightworks, but I used it in the early to mid 90s for the first time and it just made much more sense to me than Avid. It's been pretty easy for me to fall back into it since it became available for mac. I never got into Premiere because it didn't have dynamic trimming. Now it does. As far a just editing goes, it's much the same as FCP, so I don't think you'll have a problem. As Mat says, it's just a matter of getting Premiere and working it.
What I still struggle with are all of the things that don't involve the actual editing: all the stuff that an assistant editor does. I keep telling myself I'm going to buckle down and learn it, but I haven't since I've been lucky enough to have an assistant. Not to mention work-arounds between the software and the machine you're running it on. I don't have a terabyte SSD card or a 16 core processor or the latest and greatest graphics card on my home machine. I think those days of having an assistant editor to deal with all of that are slipping away and I need to get my shit together.
I'm with John on the spawn of Satan.
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8 years, 11 months ago - Malcolm Clark
I made the transition 3 years ago mid-stream editing a short (due to endless problems with the Macbook I use to have) and like the others said, I just played around with some practise clips until I got the basics enough to carry on. Anything I needed to know was there in some tutorial.Have to say I prefer Premiere to Final cut.
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