

I guess since I have the MacPro(well and an 8 core PC both w/8GB of ram)and the MC is less than last I'd checked I wondered how it would run on my system. The click WB and how easy it was to use keys to cut seemed cool. I definitely was super impressed when I sat in on the avid university session and got to edit some monster garage footage. From the sound of it an experienced avid editor can fly on it. It was less go get on a fcp system for certain projects. As many say they have a purpose and sometimes it was budget. I had an opportunity to go to a post house and saw their large room with hard drives and IT.

Unfortionately I had some issues and never really got a handle on fcp(studio).so I ended up go with what I knew and living on top ramin tryin' to come up. So I bit the bullet and bought a power pc model. When I move to Hollywood(though briefly) my peers said well if your going to edit it's either going to be avid or fcp(smaller houses). Yes I mainly got the mac(fcp) for two reasons.
#Avid media composer vs premiere pro software#
What can I expect if I just installed the software alone? Would I still need some hardware to do what the big boys use to edit quickly and in RT? Maybe this is why the price structures have dropped drastically over the past few years-or maybe MC just does so much more better. Seems they too offer a lot more than they have ever in the past. Even now that it has come down considerably in cost what do you get that the other nle's don't offer. So what does $2500 give you? Is it real time performance, better hardware support, better integration, etc. How would MC V3 run on this machine? I also have access to a dual Quad Core PC running 8GB of ram and 8600GT 512mb on pci-e 2.0. I currently own a MacPro 2008 with stock video card and 8 GB of ram. Is it real time even with software or does it require hardware to get the performance out of software alone. What I'm wondering is how Avid Composer benefits over the above mentioned nle's. I've edited mainly on Adobe Premiere and a little on Final Cut Pro. I had the opportunity to visit NAB a couple of years ago and sat in on an avid university session and actually got to edit a lil' bit.
