Re: Premiere vs. FCPX

I feel like I'm missing something too. Since the X launch last summer I've tried Premiere 5, 5.5, and now 6. Unless I'm missing something I'm completely underwhelmed. True X doesn't play nice with others, but what it does it does amazingly well. Since 10.0.4 it runs smooth as glass on my 27" 3.4 ghz i7 16gig 6970m (2gig) iMac. Other than a couple 8/12 core mac pros, that's as good as it gets.

And it's not enough for Premiere. I even added the hack so it gets the GPU boost from the 6970m. It gave me the yellow bar instead of red, but actually played back much choppier. The whole thing feels just as clunky as 5 and 5.5. Neither of those were able to actually work for more than 10 minutes on either my 2006 mac Pro, or my iMac. ANY version of FCP was a better experience. On both of these systems Media Composer runs beautifully. Even version MC 5.

I tried it with BlackMagic drivers and just as software. Both methods eventually freeze up after 10 minutes. Maybe it's something with my systems. I'm just choosing the blackmagic presets or the dslr presets.

It seems I go through this with every version of Premiere. Give it a try and give up. If anyone has any ideas I'd love to know.