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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn
I am always amazed when I hear people say that Premiere is hard to learn. I find Premiere Pro so easy and obvious. I remember checking out Vegas way back in ver. 3.0 and I thought that it was a mess of an interface, especially back then. After all it was originally developed from an audio editing program and it sure looked like it back then! In any case all the editing apps are so similar nowadays, anyone who edits routinely should be able to pick up the basics for one or the other one in minutes and be competent in days if you spend time with it. Only thing I would really have to re-learn which would slow me down a bit if I ever switched apps (fat chance) is all the keystroke commands for Premiere Pro. I use custom keyboard shortcuts all the time so my fingers can work without looking down and I save a lot of time jumping around the timeline and workspace with a minimum of fatigueing wasted mouse movements.
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I'll be really honest here with you. I don't care for adobe's biz habits or really anything about adobe. if I could get off PS I would in a heart beat. and I've used PS since version 3.5.
remember when adobe got busted for changing the root directory for pass authentication? when I went to CS1 the fucking app went on line every time I opened it to call home. when I wouldn't let it go online, it crashed. so I had to let it call home all the time.
then it would drop the registration every 3 or 4 days so I had to re-register the fucking app by phone. I went back to 7.1.
then I foolishly dropped $1200 on premier pro, because I didn't learn my lesson, spent a few hundred on sessions from a pro and had all the same fucking problems I had had with cs1 and more.
adobe told me they would only help me if I bought the 'expert' phone support. I sent them a nice email thanking them for introducing me to vegas video.
vegas has been great and I like soundforge and the was the apps work seamlessly side by side.
btw: one 10 min vegas lesson from dean capture and I was editing all the footage I need too.
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