I just received Adobe's Video Collection Professional Edition for a review I am writing for a site I publish called Underwater Digital Video.
I was wondering what all the hoopla was about with this latest incarnation from Adobe and was surprised to have this suite sent to me at no charge. Everything I had read about it seemed to make it out to be the PC version of FCP and was to be the cat's meow for NLE editing on the Windows Platform.
I have used VV3 for a several months and found it to be the easiest NLE to use and decided that I would use it as the benchmark for usability and speed of production of the sample video clips that came with the Adobe Collection.
My Benchmark: I took the same clips and brought them into both applications and was going to assemble them into a 60 sec commercial spot. Since I was was more familiar with VV3 - I started there.
I reviewed the original video clip, seen here, that Adobe had made and didn't particularly care for it so I decided to try and improve on it. I had recently finished creating an original music piece in Acid Pro and thought that it was catchy enough to take a 60 second snippet from it and use it in the test video.
In VV3, I was able to assemble the clips, lay down the music track and render out in only a couple of hours.
Now it was Premiere Pro's turn.
Not being familiar with the program was a disadvantage since this was going to slow my speed in duplicating the 60 second spot as quickly as I did in VV3. I pretty much decided that I would do the best I could and just assemble the spot to resemble as closely as possible the piece I did in VV3.
Once I began to understand the workflow pattern of Premiere Pro, I began to assemble the clips, add transitions and finally the audio.
I was out of my element here with Premiere Pro.
Not only did it take longer to assemble the video spot, taking into account for the learning curve, but audio was more difficult to manage and synch correctly within the Adobe Application.
I finally rendered out in each application to a final file - deciding on Real Media 9 as my choice for showing the final results via the net since format is cross platform. The final piece I took creative license with can be seen here
I have discovered that the latest and greatest from Adobe isn't necessarily the best.
Sonic Foundry's (now SONY's) products continue to amaze me at their quality, ease of use, stability, and productivity workflow.
If I hadn't actually experienced it first hand, I wouldn't have believed it.
I think that Adobe has made a big leap forward with their NLE offering, but when it comes down to being productive and efficient, Vegas Video still comes out on top.
Cliff Etzel
Blue Digital Media [ http://www.bluedigitalmedia.com ]
Internet Publishing :: Digital Imaging :: Digital Video
.: a cool visual antidote for a digital age :.
I was wondering what all the hoopla was about with this latest incarnation from Adobe and was surprised to have this suite sent to me at no charge. Everything I had read about it seemed to make it out to be the PC version of FCP and was to be the cat's meow for NLE editing on the Windows Platform.
I have used VV3 for a several months and found it to be the easiest NLE to use and decided that I would use it as the benchmark for usability and speed of production of the sample video clips that came with the Adobe Collection.
My Benchmark: I took the same clips and brought them into both applications and was going to assemble them into a 60 sec commercial spot. Since I was was more familiar with VV3 - I started there.
I reviewed the original video clip, seen here, that Adobe had made and didn't particularly care for it so I decided to try and improve on it. I had recently finished creating an original music piece in Acid Pro and thought that it was catchy enough to take a 60 second snippet from it and use it in the test video.
In VV3, I was able to assemble the clips, lay down the music track and render out in only a couple of hours.
Now it was Premiere Pro's turn.
Not being familiar with the program was a disadvantage since this was going to slow my speed in duplicating the 60 second spot as quickly as I did in VV3. I pretty much decided that I would do the best I could and just assemble the spot to resemble as closely as possible the piece I did in VV3.
Once I began to understand the workflow pattern of Premiere Pro, I began to assemble the clips, add transitions and finally the audio.
I was out of my element here with Premiere Pro.
Not only did it take longer to assemble the video spot, taking into account for the learning curve, but audio was more difficult to manage and synch correctly within the Adobe Application.
I finally rendered out in each application to a final file - deciding on Real Media 9 as my choice for showing the final results via the net since format is cross platform. The final piece I took creative license with can be seen here
I have discovered that the latest and greatest from Adobe isn't necessarily the best.
Sonic Foundry's (now SONY's) products continue to amaze me at their quality, ease of use, stability, and productivity workflow.
If I hadn't actually experienced it first hand, I wouldn't have believed it.
I think that Adobe has made a big leap forward with their NLE offering, but when it comes down to being productive and efficient, Vegas Video still comes out on top.
Cliff Etzel
Blue Digital Media [ http://www.bluedigitalmedia.com ]
Internet Publishing :: Digital Imaging :: Digital Video
.: a cool visual antidote for a digital age :.