AVID SYMPHONY at 1000$ OR ADOBE PREMIERE CS6 at 1700$

[Guillaume Tremblay]

The tittle says it all...Please comment. :)

[Brian D. Goff]

The tittle says it all...Please comment. :)

I don't like AVID because it is just not straight forward with RED footage - Premiere is - drop footage in project - edit. Also Premiere XML seem more open to other systems.

[Craig Parkes]

It really depends what sort of editing you are doing. Avid is amazing for longform and series work, not so flexible for short form. Premiere is pretty awesome for short form, but has some missing functionality around long form. What are you mostly cutting.

[Paul J Steinberg]

You can buy Premiere CS6 for $800 on its own. $1800 is for the Production Premium package that includes Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, Speedgrade, Prelude, Encore, Adobe Media Encoder, Bridge.

Premiere is file agnostic, you can work with any resolution, frame rate and codec all on the same timeline. I've just used it for little projects in the past and it's been really easy to use. I'm starting to try and round-trip to/from Resolve and relinking media seems to be a bit of a pain (seems like you manually have to click every clip you want it to link to). Adobe Media Encoder is an awesome tool and comes bundled with Premiere.

As far as price, to compare apples to apples the $800 stand-alone is still a deal. Most people need Photoshop and After Effects as well (I do) so the Production Package was what I went with. Once you make your initial purchase the upgrade costs are minimal (the 'cloud' upgrade licence covers 2 machines for $30/month).

[MichaelP]

Also, the $1K Symphony was a crossgrade promotion from FCP7 that is now over.

Michael

[Marcos Montenegro]

Instead of buying it why don't you do the paid subscription? $49 per month (yearly contract required) and you get ALL of CS6 programs, including Premier, AE and PS.

https://creative.adobe.com/#plans

[Eric Santiago]

No brainer if you've never used any of the options.
Get the CS package itll do you well :)
We use Avid for post but have over a dozen CS across the Macs and PCs here.
I personally dont use Premiere anymore but when the time comes, its there ready for me ;)

[Ben Rojas]

Also, the $1K Symphony was a crossgrade promotion from FCP7 that is now over.

Michael

I thought so too, but not only can you still buy it @ B&H for $999, but even on Avid's website. They're not advertising it, but looks like they've haven't cut it off. As far as I'm concerned, Symphony @ $5K is laughable and certainly unjustifiable when you consider the CS6 Production Premium is $1899... Hell, and much cheaper if you're upgrading. In my case, I'm upping from CS3 Prod. Suite and it's costing me $900. Add in Smoke 2013 @ $3500 (+600 for yearly license) and you've got 2 amazing programs for the price of what... 10+ year old Symphony! That being said, I can't see Avid selling a lot of Symphony's at 5K so my gut tells me it'll stay at 1K, which is good for all us as who the hell ever thought we'd be able to have 4 NLE's on one machine!

[PatrickW]

Other than the expensive and bulky Mac dongle you require, FCP-X as another option at 299$.

[Eric Santiago]

Other than the expensive and bulky Mac dongle you require, FCP-X as another option at 299$.

I love the dongle :) We opted for that with our crossgrade so we can move the app around.