Re: Premiere Pro CS 6.0: First Impressions

Excellent article David
I understand what FCP 7 users go through, I went through it 16 Years ago when DraCo nonlinear from Macro Systems, stop supporting us It cost me over $20,000.
I have been using Premiere since 2007 for Weddings and Music Videos. Formats used S-VHS before 1996,Mini DV,DVCAM, Currently HDV or AVCHD.
For over three years I have been working with 2 Mac-Pros 2x3.2gh Quad Xeon 8GB ram.I only use it for basic edit on FCP-7 my main role is dubbing to tape building DvD's through compressor and DvD studio and ingesting.
MAC is more stable and more responsive than WIN 7.
Yes PPro has come a long way and leapfrogged FCP 7,and I agree there are Apps that need more features to get the Pro title.
How can Adobe with it's Award winning Photoshop not implement it's Color Mastery into Premiere.
Render Speeds between FCP-7 vs CS5.5 with same video, CS5.5 is 3-times faster.
FCP-7 took 8 hours to encode 3 hours of AVCHD to Pro-ress.
CS5.5 encoded a Blu-Ray in encore from timeline Dynamic Link in a fraction over realtime.
My PC is already dated,with up to date SPECS this times can be halved.
Conclusion.
FCP-7 can still work for the wright environment,but if choose CS5.5 or 6 on MAC or PC Hardware compatibility is paramount.

Terry

CS5.5
I7 - 860 @ 2.80GHZ
8 GB DDR3
WIN-7 Ultimate 64-bit