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	• Final Cut Express 4 Mac, PowerMac, Mac OS X \| Apple, 2007 average customer review:based on 70 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

As good as premiere

I was using adobe premiere for years, which was a little buggy but did the job. This program was a pleasant surprise. It is a multi-track NLE program giving unlimited tracks in both audio and video, presenting a shortcut for a default transition between clips. The capture works much more smoothly than premiere, but that is characteristic of the mac video programs. The range of color filters and audio filters is so extensive that it is difficult for a professional who is not in the motion picture industry to have to use a more expensive program. (Could use a few more audio filters, though.)

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I'm not personally using this product, but those that I bought the software for will declare that there is no better software in the world for video edting for mac or otherwise. that 's my review. if you don't have a mac, get a good refurb and get final cut express on it. you won't go back to windows.

Finally got my EXPRESS

I finally able to get my software and I am more then satisfied with it. It came like BRAND NEW and I LOVE IT! Packaging was a little beat up, but the rest was fine.

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powerful but unwieldy

I have FCE at work, and I go home to Adobe Premiere CS4. I realize that isn't exactly a fair comparison, but every time I switch on Premiere, I am glad I'm NOT using FCE.
I use FCE on a macbook Pro with 2.4 Ghz Core 2 duo and 2 GB RAM- not great but definitely within the specs required for this software. Its a beast getting this thing to crunch video. Even after I import video, I almost invariably have to render the video in the timeline if I want to see anything. Major time sink right there. On top of that, there are rather silly codec issues that are never a problem in Premiere (and, I would imagine FCP.) Render time is basically the biggest complaint, that and the utilization of Livetype to do titling.
You can do titles within FCE itself, but if you want the "cool" factor of animated fonts and whatnot, you have to go into LiveType. Livetype is a pain to work and it seems incredibly awkward to have to jump in and out of FCE and not even have the files render properly in FCE... again, Adobe CS wins out, the files are almost seamlessly transfered. i've never had an issue dragging and droppin projects, and Premiere is a little more happy to fix your 'broken' file associations for projects- and it liveupdates so if you make a change in a file, its immediately changed in your Premiere project.
Almost every transition requires further render time, rather than rendering as it is placed... as if there is any point in un-rendered, unplayable video....
That being said, I can't help but respect the power behind the software. You can make the video dance and shake and clean it up and do all the stuff the big boys do (almost). You get a very fine degree of control and, without too much trouble, its a relatively easy system to learn if you are moving from practically any NLE. The thing is just so unwieldy that I find myself stepping into imovie for short, and simple projects. i shouldn't have to want to go back to the "fisher price" editor...

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