Hi,

After 10 years as an Avid editor on numerous of TV shows and commercials, Im finally thinking of making a transition to Premiere. Basically because of what I find as seriously bad software development over the years.
Have any of you made the transition and are you happy with the decision?

stig

Because of how quickly Premiere was able to ingest material, sync it up and create multicam sequences out of multiple camera start-stop clips I plunged in enthusiastically several months ago.  Because of how badly it choked at the tail end of the process with a timeline weighted by effects, even simple color corrections, I came back to Avid.  The transcoding time at the front end and stability make the overall process quicker and more pleasant.

I keep CC around for useful apps like AE, Photoshop, Flash, Acrobat, Audition, AME, Encore, and even use Premiere for odd formats.  But Avid remains my NLE of choice -- hands down.

Hmm I was thinking of doing the same. I will use it on my next project and see how it works for me.

MC stability and media managment can't be beaten.

I dont trust anything else for that matter.

I do have PPro. Using it?

Only for capturing some old tapes MC stacks on.

I'm using PP for multi-cam -- no problems with choking -- sequence length doesn't seem to matter. some have color corrections on entire clips, sometimes multiple cc effects, up to 2 1/2 hour programs from 4 cameras, with no need to render effects - plays smoothly while editing in muliticam veiwer. have also done many short docs, but no long docs or complex multiple track compositions so can't speak to those. I still like avid, but using it now only for long-time long-form docs shot on old formats.