Final Cut Pro HD vs AVID Adrenaline

Just when I was telling my Curd Rice members about AVID Adrenaline, and when we were thinking how to get all the cash to purchase it, I have to stumble upon Final Cut Pro HD. Seeing is believing. What should I do now? With Final Cut Pro HD, Mac OS X Panther and the dual-processor Power Mac G5, Apple has redefined high-performance in a professional nonlinear editing system. Measuring Performance You can quantify performance of a professional nonlinear editing system using two metrics. A real-time effects test measures how many effects, filters and transitions you can apply to multiple simultaneous video clips and play back in real-time without additional proprietary video acceleration hardware. Render speed measures the time it takes for your Mac to composite multiple video streams with effects, filters and transitions and write the resulting video playback file to disk. Any way you measure it, Final Cut Pro HD on a Power Mac G5 offers unparalleled performance. Real-time effects with RT Extreme There are nearly 200 filters, effects, and transitions in Final Cut Pro HD, most of which can be used in real-time. Apple measured performance by counting the number of simultaneous video streams the system can composite and output in real-time without rendering. Test results show that the dual-processor 2GHz Power Mac G5 running Final Cut Pro HD and Mac OS X Panther can output seven simultaneous streams of full quality uncompressed SD video (8-bit 4:2:2) in real-time. This represents a 40% performance gain when compared to Avid Media Composer Adrenaline running on a dual 2.8GHz Xeon Windows system. Top New Features in Final Cut Pro 5 Native HDV Editing Multicamera Editing RT extreme with Dynamic RT Multi-channel Audio Input Audio Control Surfaces Improved Xsan support Native IMX editing Support for Panasonic P2 devices Cinema Tools 3 integrated database Improved finishing quality effects and output