Posted by l e o on 10/07/06 02:57

Smarty wrote:
> 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
> news:1160148271.346034.28030@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>> 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


Despite your push for Ulead Video, I really like using Vegas 7 for HDV
editing. I think Vegas is the minimum system to do a feature length
documentary. It works seamlessly with Sonic Foundry for sound editing.
Don't forget multi-tracks. I don't think Ulead Video has it but I
haven't really use it too intensively.

Premiere Pro 2 is fine too and it works well with Photoshop/Illustrator
files.

Final Cut Pro is mainly for Mac users; sorry I don't see it's virtue
except easy to find editors for serious works and lots of third party
plugins. If you go with Mac, you really need to spend over $2500 for Mac
Pro just to have the PCIe slots!!!!!!! You will find that expansion slot
very useful - many [expensive] products from Blackmagic that will make
HDV editing a better experience. But what a premium, a Dual 2 Core
system can be gotten for $1000 with enough money left to invest on RAID
hard drives and 4 GB memory etc.

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