Erwin van Dijck
January 7th, 2008, 12:09 PM
Does anyone of you recently switched from Sony Vegas to Final Cut Pro and could you tell about your experience please? Or have both and can compare?
I am a long time Sony Vegas user and really like the software, it works amazingly fast and is very intuitive.
Yet I am looking for a better platform to work on instead of Windows. Something more reliable, faster, more stable and a platform that does not stand in the way of my productivity. A better integration between Photoshop and animation tools (like Motion perhaps) would be a plus.
Many issues lately: rendering at night to find out in the morning that the virus-scanner kicked in slowing the PC for 50%, or spontanious reboots in the middle of your work, the many of popups for virus-scanners, backup questions, update windows - without a deny button - program errors, explorer.exe taking over 20% CPU power, etc. always while you are right in the middle of a flow.
So switching to Mac and FCP comes to mind and I am reading a book now on FCP to get an idea. I will also ask someone for a live demo soon.
What are your thought on switching to FCP from Vegas? Learning-curve? Ease-of-use compared to Vegas? Did you make a window lay-out that resembles Vegas? Do you make your cuts and transitions on the timeline or in the viewer? Did you miss functionality that would make you work faster? Did you find new tools that proved to be very comfortable? Compatibility? Does it have realtime preview without rendering? Please tell me!
Regards,
Erwin
I am a long time Sony Vegas user and really like the software, it works amazingly fast and is very intuitive.
Yet I am looking for a better platform to work on instead of Windows. Something more reliable, faster, more stable and a platform that does not stand in the way of my productivity. A better integration between Photoshop and animation tools (like Motion perhaps) would be a plus.
Many issues lately: rendering at night to find out in the morning that the virus-scanner kicked in slowing the PC for 50%, or spontanious reboots in the middle of your work, the many of popups for virus-scanners, backup questions, update windows - without a deny button - program errors, explorer.exe taking over 20% CPU power, etc. always while you are right in the middle of a flow.
So switching to Mac and FCP comes to mind and I am reading a book now on FCP to get an idea. I will also ask someone for a live demo soon.
What are your thought on switching to FCP from Vegas? Learning-curve? Ease-of-use compared to Vegas? Did you make a window lay-out that resembles Vegas? Do you make your cuts and transitions on the timeline or in the viewer? Did you miss functionality that would make you work faster? Did you find new tools that proved to be very comfortable? Compatibility? Does it have realtime preview without rendering? Please tell me!
Regards,
Erwin