Premiere 6 or MSP 6

[Aspen]

Can someone give me a run down on the advantages and disadvantages of each?

Which one would you buy?

Thanks,
Aspen

P.S. I have a G400TV

[Dr Mordrid]

Depends on what you want to do with it.

MSPro is easier to use and has features you have to pay hundreds of dollars for with Premiere6. Examples: Video Paint, CG-Infinity, standalone capture program etc. It also has a lot more and higher quality effects (transitions, filters etc.) than Premiere6. Put them all together and it's a very powerful package. Add Cool3D 3.0 to the mix and you can do a ton more. MSPro6's one major weakness is its built-in Ligos MPEG-1/2 encoder. Ulead got sandbagged by Ligos and ended up with an inferior plugin. This is due to be corrected soon though. Also you can get very powerful plugins for MSPro much cheaper than you can for Premiere6. VizFx is a great example. OpenGL filters and all kinds of other stuff for $80. A steal.

Premiere6's advantages are that there are more powerful PD plugins for it. AVISynth's is a great example. It allows you to feed your timeline directly to TMPGEnc without saving it out (aka: frameserving). Great for long projects destined for MPEG. It also has a built-in audio mixer and the ability to use "virtual clips". This is where a series of clips & effects can be nested into a virtual clip instead of cluttering up the timeline. Handy. Otherwise most addons for Premiere are quite expensive.

Of course I use both, but the RT-2000 is Premiere only until Ulead gets their buns in gear with a plugin for it. IF Ulead offers a full-featured RT-2000 plugin I'd drop Premiere in a heartbeat except for frameserving TMPGEnc.

Dr. Mordrid


[This message has been edited by Dr Mordrid (edited 01 March 2001).]

[wkulecz]

Mostly agree with the Doc, except I think the Ulead stand-alone capture utility is its biggest weakness, not a plus. Premiere6 capture tool is far better. Fortunately you can download a very nice capture tool from the Vegas Video demo directory at Sonic Foundry's website and use it instead of Ulead's lamer. IMHO the Ulead capture tool is totally useless unless you "pre-stripe" your tapes for continuous timecode and batch capture works with your camcorder. Since you are doing analog capture, this is not an issue. You'll probably want to invest $25 in AVI_IO to get around the 2/4GB file limits of FAT32.

Its not clear to me that the Ligos MPEG plugin shipped with Premiere is any better than what MSP6 has. So I wouldn't count on this as a Premiere selling point either. If Ligos that ships with Premiere is better than what ships with MSP, please enlighten me to the settings that make it so.

--wally.