Re: So who is the best candidate?

Thanks for all the replies. It seems a lot of people are sold on premiere. I did some search and it seems avid can do all and more. So what is the premiere selling point? Is it the lower price? Or just the adobe suite integration? The later does not matter at all for me as I do not use any other adobe product.
One of the things I find curious about premiere is that I can never really find anybody using it outside of weddings, corporate and short form stuff. Definitely never heard of a main stream movie being cut on premiere for example. I wonder why the higher end seems to shy away from premiere? What's the catch if it is so good and powerful?

The problem of not having too many people using the program you are using for the same thing you are using it for is when questions arise it's hard to find people who can answer your questions.

I'm sure if I start using premiere and start cutting weddings in lower formats or corporate interviews from AVCD, XDCAM and DSLRs and I get a workflow question I will have a million help replies. I' sure if I come with a question of how to do a title sequence in AE and import into premiere I will be a quick reply.
But will I be able to get help when I come with higher end questions? +

How many premiere users here use it for long form work?

How many premiere users here cut DPX sequences? What are the premiere needs for a DPX post workflow? Any caveats?

How many export and send DPX sequences from premiere to a compositing department to be composited in Nuke or Fusion and then get it back again in DPX or EXR and you have to do a re-conform on your time line?

How many people here send their projects to a Protools facility for audio mixing?

How many must send their entire long form project to Da Vinci for grading?

How many must generate multiple versions of their projects for DVD, Blu-ray, Digital Cinema Projection, Web etc?

What workflow did you use to generate a master for 35mm film transfer last time you did it?

How many must prepare different versions of their project for different languages?

How many must generate different versions for approval? What's the workflow you use for that?

How many must work and collaborate with more people rather than being a one man show?

Those are the things that concern me in going the premiere way. Good thing about avid is that they have been doing this stuff for decades and it has always worked for them. Before FCP they were pretty much the only game in town. We did have other applications but avid was the largest and had the huge majority of the market. Now that FCP is falling, will avid be supreme again? Doesn't matter. But the piece of mind in knowing they have been doing all of the above for years surely makes me more comfortable with them than with adobe.

This is no adobe bashing. I'm asking serious questions with serious interest.


Oh apple, why did you have to forsake us? LOL.