Adobe brings Premiere back to the Mac

Floris van Eck · January 14th, 2007, 12:16 PM

For me, Premiere Pro 2.0 for Windows has been one great annoyance ever since I started using it. I am encountering a lot of crashes, some clips are not captured and then the program crashes and everything I have done can be done again. Not productive at all. I really miss Final Cut Pro and truly regret ever switching from Mac OS X to Windows again.

So I hope this new version for the Mac will be something like 3.0 or 2.5 and will also be made available to Windows users so I finally might have a program that actually allows me to work instead of troubleshoot.

Matthew Ebenezer · January 24th, 2007, 03:18 AM

This announcement is something I've been waiting on for a long time. As a PC user for over 10 years (and a network administrator in another life) I've always said that if Premiere was available on the Mac I would have a hard time not switching.

I've tried using Final Cut Pro a few times and Premiere just makes more sense to me - especially after using it on the PC for 4 or so years.

To be able to use Premiere (plus the rest of the Production Studio apps) on the Mac - and escape the inherent hassles associated with PCs and Windows - is a very tantalising proposition indeed.

I'll be watching this one very closely.

Theodore McNeil · January 24th, 2007, 04:46 PM

For the last couple of years the partisan Adobe and Apple Non-linear editors have been on the opposite sides of a fence. Adobe versus Apple decision had more to do with wether you were a Mac or PC person. Both tribes have throwing rocks at one another from a safe distance for quite a few years.

Now, with windows OS running on Macs and Adobe making a OSX version, the lines are blurred. It'll be interesting to see who of the Apple Tribe ends up switching to Adobe just out of a cost consideration. I use FCP, but as of right now the Adobe Production Suite looks a better deal.

January 14th, 2007, 12:16 PM	#16
Floris van Eck Major Player Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 993	For me, Premiere Pro 2.0 for Windows has been one great annoyance ever since I started using it. I am encountering a lot of crashes, some clips are not captured and then the program crashes and everything I have done can be done again. Not productive at all. I really miss Final Cut Pro and truly regret ever switching from Mac OS X to Windows again. So I hope this new version for the Mac will be something like 3.0 or 2.5 and will also be made available to Windows users so I finally might have a program that actually allows me to work instead of troubleshoot.

January 24th, 2007, 03:18 AM	#17
Matthew Ebenezer Major Player Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Toowoomba, Australia Posts: 370	This announcement is something I've been waiting on for a long time. As a PC user for over 10 years (and a network administrator in another life) I've always said that if Premiere was available on the Mac I would have a hard time not switching. I've tried using Final Cut Pro a few times and Premiere just makes more sense to me - especially after using it on the PC for 4 or so years. To be able to use Premiere (plus the rest of the Production Studio apps) on the Mac - and escape the inherent hassles associated with PCs and Windows - is a very tantalising proposition indeed. I'll be watching this one very closely.

January 24th, 2007, 04:46 PM	#18
Theodore McNeil Major Player Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Centreville, Maryland Posts: 258	For the last couple of years the partisan Adobe and Apple Non-linear editors have been on the opposite sides of a fence. Adobe versus Apple decision had more to do with wether you were a Mac or PC person. Both tribes have throwing rocks at one another from a safe distance for quite a few years. Now, with windows OS running on Macs and Adobe making a OSX version, the lines are blurred. It'll be interesting to see who of the Apple Tribe ends up switching to Adobe just out of a cost consideration. I use FCP, but as of right now the Adobe Production Suite looks a better deal.