Posted by Smarty on 10/06/06 20:24

Mr Tapeguy,

Ulead's $89 program lacks many features which FCP 5.1 provides, and more
advanced users can upgrade or buy Ulead's professional product for $300 or
so which maintains the same speed but adds more features for advanced
editing.

Despite being very limited compared to FCP in features, it does basic
editing and other things quite adequately, and contains many filters,
transitions, titling tools, overlay and alpha / greenscreen features as well
as pretty sophisticated audio tools, all considered. It makes really
excellent DVDs and HD DVDs (as well as all sorts of other mpeg2, mpeg4, VCD,
SVCD, ipod and other formats). Its' full screen preview and playback just
blows away FCP and Vegas, as does its' rendering speed. For a beginner or
someone on a limited budget, it just doesn't get any better today. iMovieHD
and a modest iMac would be a reasonably comparable Mac alternative, but has
the rendering speed penalty as well as way too much Quicktime emphasis for
my taste. Simple MPEG2 file handling is terrible on this platform.

My dual G5 came with Tiger, was delivered / installed with Final Cut Studio
Pro HD 5 from a clean install and has been upgraded with all updates to both
OSX and FCP HD Studio. It is just a slow machine, producing high quality
results with far too much expense and time consumption. Having used FCP
older versions on older hardware with earlier (non Tiger) releases, this is
indeed a much faster system than those were......but it is still glacial
compared to Ulead.

Smarty



"Mr. Tapeguy" <mr.tapeguy@pro-tape.com> wrote in message
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>
> Smarty wrote:
>> I just have to throw my 2 cents in here, since I have been doing HDV
>> editing
>> since the day it was available..... I now have 4 systems in place, and
>> have
>> made a lot of comparisons and observations.
>
>
> <snip>
>
> That is really interesting info Smarty. How does the Ulead compare in
> features to the more expensive packages?
>
> By the way, you probably won't be using this as your primary solution
> but if you haven't upgraded to Tiger you should do so as well as
> crossgrade to FCP 5.x before the end of the year. It's cheap and will
> enhance performance dramatically.
>
> Craig
>
> http://www.pro-tape.com
>

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