I cut all three on a fairly regular basis now - now admittedly I've not cut a "hard core" documentary on FCP. Most of my work tends to be fairly low budget. I own Avid, and regularly freelance on FCP7 and Premier.
I'm faster with Avid, and Avid is definitely better if you're going on line elsewhere. Far less headaches. Everything just works. You don't have to "figure out" how to do things.
FCP 7 is very solid - but the projects I've worked on have been 'clean up' for someone else - and there have always been horrible media management issues, and the rendering time drove me nuts. Maybe it's just my client base, but FCP editors in general seem to be much less experienced, and much less exacting in their work.
Premier is actually quite good for short projects. I have cut some longer form stuff, approaching 2 hours. Anything long just lags annoyingly, even in the newer versions. Some really annoying quirks in how it handles linked audio and video, and clients are always having issues with backwards compatibility, because there isn't any. Hands down the best program if you need to manipulate still images though.
It's really just become an issue of finding the best tool for the project. Just my 2 cents.
Mark
OK, so we have different experiences. My statement was based on two large projects and a bunch of shorter ones, all of which I did not cut but did coach.
Other than that: to each his own.
On 11 dec. 2013, at 01:05, James Culbertson <albion@speakeasy.net> wrote:
FCP legacy was wonderful to cut longform on, in my case primarily documentaries.
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