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Posted by Luis Ortega on 04/12/07 23:01
I value the advice that I have been given here on many occasions. I recently
took a course on Final Cut Pro 5 and I was very impressed by what I saw.
The studio version includes a music creation program and a special effects
program that some say is comparable to After Effects, plus a dvd creation
program and some sort of file format converter, which I think is called
Compressor..
My current software is Avid Xpress DV HD and Premiere Pro 2 on Windows.
FCP seems to have all of the features of Avid and Premiere Pro plus a few
more very interesting workflow features.
My question is what people who are really familiar with these programs think
about the idea of getting a macbook pro and FCP studio 5 as opposed to
continuing with the Windows series of programs that I already own.
I didn't have enough time to really get into all of the programs of FCP, and
I am not that familiar with how stable Apples and FCP are.
Would a mac powerbook pro be powerful enough to run FCP well? Is the FCP
studio software bundle really that good? I don't really want to buy another
desktop, even though it would be cheaper and probably more powerful, as I
plan to keep the PC for doing everything else.
The cost and learning curve is a consideration but not the main one. I have
always been a PC person, primarily because of cost and the ability to simply
build my own machines over the years.
I guess the ideal solution would be that Apple sold FCP for Windows. Now
that they are going to the intel processors, is that a possibility?
I realize that this is a fairly unspecific question, but I would appreciate
any opinions that people might have to offer.
Thanks a lot for any advice.
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