Is it final cut pro or any adobe software or any I dont know already.
Any advice would be great. It is for a film studies course.
Any advice would be great. It is for a film studies course.
Depending on what you have to do, iMovie might be sufficient. Have you asked your teacher what they recommend for the course?
I want the software to be scalable and to learn professional techniques so iMovie is too basic for my needs.
Final Cut Pro 7 is still industry standard, but a lot of people are switching over to Premiere Pro now that Apple isn't supporting Final Cut 7 anymore.
A lot of film and TV is cut on AVID too.
Is it final cut pro or any adobe software or any I dont know already.
Any advice would be great. It is for a film studies course.
Apple completely rebuilt Final Cut Pro with the release of FCP X and no longer support FCP 7. The majority of video professionals aren't happy with the change and are jumping ship to something else like Premiere Pro.
Which is best:
bmw or mercedes
Red or white
Blonde or brunette
Steak or Fish
Soccer or American Football
....
Well other than the last one you get the point (soccer/Futball obviously better...)
I've used both in a limited capacity and like Premiere pro a lot better for editing, but like FCP better for logging and archiving. It's preference and if you're going to be a professional you should learn the system you're likely to use based on where you want to work.
Well I will be eventually be teaching the skills to the students in my class.
Get Final Cut Pro X. It's what everyone else in your film studies course will be using, plus it's probably what your later classes will teach with (that or 7).
What schools are teaching X? No school I know of around LA is teaching X, most I see stayed on at 7 with no plans to change to X, or Make 7/Premiere the beginning classes and avid their advanced classes.
To the OP get Premiere, X is a joke.
two reasons. First, it bridges nicely to Avid Pro Tools, which many professional audio mixers use. And second, it has been very reliable over the past years. Final Cut was, too, but has now made a big change with FCPX, and Premiere was not that commonly used amongst professional editors in the past. Although many are now making the jump. I am getting the impression that while it is still around (like FCP7), Avid Media Composer is fading out slowly. Well, at least that's what I heard. I'm not a professional and while I've worked with Avid software (Sibelius and Pro Tools), I have not tried out the Media Composer yet.
In broadcast and features, Avid still has edge, closely followed by FCP 7. MC isn't dying out - however Avid as a company are in big trouble. Avid is still a lot of editors favourite software because that's what they know, and it also has some tools that FCP and Pr don't. Its also the only edit software that can work properly in a shared environment - meaning if you want 20 editors to work from the same pool of footage at the same time you can.
Also Avid is a lot more than just MC, there's DS, Newscutter etc.