Apple Offers Discounts to Adobe Premiere Users 64
JHromadka writes "Apple is responding to Adobe dropping future Premiere releases with great deals on Final Cut products. You can trade in Premiere for a free copy of FC Express, or $500 off FC Pro."
Express or Pro? (Score:5, Interesting)
Ebay! (Score:5, Interesting)
Worldwide availability? (Score:5, Interesting)
Go Apple (Score:5, Interesting)
Adobe has decided that not only can it not compete with a better product (its competing when its not bundled for free with the OS), but that it wants to push a much more serious rival's media software (WMP).
FCP is a great reason to own a Mac, and offering free or inexpensive cross grades to FCP from Premiere on both platforms is exactly what Apple needs to do to stay competitive.
The media technologies are actually the key to the Premiere/FCP battle. Keeping MPEG4 at the front of the game is extremely important to all of us who are interested in seeing open media technologiers (and who don't want another reason to be stuck on Windows). Having Adobe push Microsoft's solution (not saying you can't do anything else - but notice the prominent mention of MS technologies in their PR release for Premiere) is bad for all of us.
My point? Apple competing hard for open media standards via products like FCP is great for those people who will never use either piece of software.
Burning DVDs (Score:2, Interesting)
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Re:Express or Pro? (Score:3, Interesting)
How about "more or less anything?" Premiere is awkward to use, but once learned is an extremely powerful package. The amount of layers that you can use alone makes it more "powerful" than FCP.
FCP is a good package - lets make no mistake about that - if you want simple video editing, then it can do it, however Premiere is a lot more flexible, if a lot more complicated, however with power comes the knowledge pre-requisite.
You want to do extremely complicated edits, use Premiere and perhaps consider After Effects. You want pain free relatively basic editing, get FCP.
Re:Express or Pro? (Score:5, Interesting)
I thought you could do all the layering you would ever want on FCP. From version 1, FCP had "segments", sort of like subroutines of video that you'd already edited. You can easily prepare and combine in any way you wanted with other segments, which is an enormously powerful feature that was only added to Premiere with the advent of Premiere Pro (this new Windows-only version).
FCP also has extensive keyboard shortcuts that make you a lot more efficient. Again, Premiere Pro brags about this, but FCP did it first.
Could you give an illustration on something you could do in Premiere that you couldn't do in FCP?
I know you can do wonderful things in After Effects, although it's about as fast as a drugged slug. But Premiere? You've roused my curiosity
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Re:Express or Pro? (Score:2, Interesting)
Even for a user with lots of hard drive space, that limits your focus. Making a list also saves huge amounts of time.
If you're a consumer user that's just manipulating small clips anyway, then iMovie is the way to go. I still don't think that FC Express is worth $299...
Availability in Europe; Adobe cooperation? (Score:2, Interesting)
Well, according to Andrew Webb on MacInTouch [macintouch.com], Apple says that
(emphasis mine)So it seems that Adobe is cooperating with Apple on this one (maybe by assuring them that Adobe customers won't be in violation of their Premiere licenses by just sending the media to Apple).