How many are doing the "switch"?

I've done the switch. Trying to figure my way around the 'quirks' (ie, why is match frame not working for me?)

 

Me too!

 

I've been using AE, Photoshop and Illustrator for quite some time now, but I still haven't migrated out of FCP 7 as my NLE. And most of the reason for that has been existing projects.

I've been pondering picking up Premiere Pro for a while. I might jump on the deal Adobe is having for existing FCP/Avid customers, but I'll likely do the 30-day test drive first to build a general familiarity with the interface.

But with that said, I'm not in a huge rush to migrate. FCP 7 still works fine and from the point of view of a professional, it's costly (and somewhat risky) to migrate an entire editing bay with thousands of dollars worth of gear to a new NLE package, whether it be Adobe, Avid or whatever.

 

In my TV station we use FCP 7, After Effects, Soundtrack Pro for audio and Compressor.

With the FCP X stuff probably will start consider Premiere just because Avid is too expensive. We are looking into integration, having templates created between applications, like Motion with FCP. But we just have to time to learn Motion and After Effects is an industry standard and has all the features, is a great software.

For sure FCP X is not in the menu.

 

I've been working with Premiere CS5 this past week. I love how it integrates into After Effects, but the renders using Media Encoder blows. All of my exports have artifacts on one or 2 random frames. The only workaround that I could find was to import the sequence into After Effects and render from there, then I could get clean video out. I think I'm really going to miss Final Cut Pro.

 

I gotta say, it's a fantastic deal Adobe are offering right now, and it's at the ideal time too, what with the angered fans of FCP no doubt looking to move somewhere else after FCPX.

 

Just give FCPX a chance, it's mainly geared towards the advanced iMovie users who want to step it up, but felt it was to burden some to use FCP... Apple has done a great job with this new release of FCPX.

 

I gave it a chance. It's unusable in my workflow. My clients still require tapes, DVDs, multi cam projects, as well as mastered audio which requires files FCP X no longer supports...not to mention my backlog of 200 broadcast shows that I'm in the process of archiving, tweaking, re-editing and mastering. Was REALLY hoping FCPX would help me with that given how bloody fast it is...but it can't open any FCP7 projects so it's dead in the water from this professional's perspective.

That's not to say it doesn't have it's uses...

 

Does After effects use a different engine than Media Encoder? I didn't realize that.

 

The Media Encoder artifacts are a known issue. Quality wise, I still prefer Compressor with x.264 for web, even though it is not the fastest.