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No hesitations, we got one and thought we’ll test one before deciding whether to upgrade our whole editing suite with iMacs or not. It didn’t seem to be a powerhouse in terms of specs but that screen was to die for and the whole package looked slick in its simplicity. Apple…me? what? really?Īround this time Apple released their new iMac 5K and it couldn’t have come at a better time for us.

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And who does simplicity well? Yeah, it was hard to admit for a Windows fan like me, but Apple did seem to make some nice machines. Yes, you could get a lot of power for your money with a PC, but at times I felt like a slave to the hardware. Why? Simple really we had always worked with big workstations that although very powerful and reliable, occupied lots of space, were noisy and required constant fiddling with hardware (graphics cards, internal drives etc.). And here is another twist in the story as after a whole life of being a convinced Microsoft Windows users, we decided to step into the realms of Apple and buy our first Mac. Little bugs like render fails or crashing computers, but this may be due to our ageing computers we thought, so we looked into upgrading our PCs. But there were niggling things which weren’t so OK.

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We could use any software we wanted, learn new skills, sharpen our old ones with the most up-to-date software, and on the whole it all worked OK. Well, we ignored that problem for a while and dived right into Adobe Creative Cloud, and it was pretty great at first.

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I must admit we didn’t have too many reservations at first except for maybe the legacy issue: what if one day we decided to move to an alternate system? Could we still access our old projects? Or would we simple lose access to all our archive of projects? Some people thought it was great as their products would be constantly updated and become ever more reliable. I can still remember the amount of controversy that decision created in the post-production world. However, there was a turning point in this story (like in every story really) and that was Adobe’s announcement of the move to a subscription based model, Adobe Creative Cloud.

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If you’re wondering why we switched from PCs to Apple Macs for our editing suites then we hope you’ll enjoy reading this article however, if you want to cut right to the chase and see how we weigh up Adobe Premiere Pro then we deal with that in-depth in Part Two of this blog post.Įarly dynamic link was quite revolutionary but it didn’t always worked as intended Throughout this time of consideration we made use of many google searches and web articles to inform us and our decision, and now having made our decision we decided to write our own article about our switch from Adobe Premiere Pro to Apple’s Final Cut Pro X in the hope of helping others in a similar situation to the one we found ourselves in. We found that there were really two debates taking place when we discussed leaving Creative Cloud: firstly, the hardware debate of making the switch from PCs to Macs, and secondly the software debate of making the switch from Premiere Pro to Final Cut X. This was not an easy decision, we debated amongst ourselves and as a result came up with many pros and cons for staying with or leaving Adobe Creative Cloud. The seeds of AdobexitĪfter roughly eight years of using Adobe Premiere Pro as our preferred NLE system, a few months ago we made the transition to Final Cut Pro X. We had used Adobe products for video editing for the entire life span of the company (founded in 2008) and changing our video editing system could have had big effects on our workflow, both good and bad. Joking aside, as a video production company based in Manchester, UK this was a big decision for us. Taking lead from the British press we also coined a word that would divide us into two distinct camps: the brilliant ly poor ‘AdobExit’. In 2016 when the UK was in the thrust of an epic debate between good or evil staying or leaving the European Union – which the British tabloids, and later the whole British media, labelled Brexit – we at Viva La Zoom had our own vital piece of decision making going on: whether to stick with Abobe Premiere Pro or to leave for pastures new in the editing world. Adobexit: The switch from Premiere to Final Cut Pro (Part One)