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- From: jstern@garnet.berkeley.edu ()
- Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
- Subject: Re: Director or Premier??
- Date: 29 Jul 1992 00:02:37 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <Bs3xIx.C8@solbourne.com> ericr@solbourne.com (Eric Robison) writes:
- >I need to buy either Director or Premier RSN. Anybody out there
- >got any good comparisons?
-
- My first response to your question is that they're very different
- types of products, though there are places where their functionality
- overlaps. Premiere is mostly a QuickTime editing package. Director is
- mostly an animation package. Premiere's strengths are in video
- editing kinds of things: creating transitions between video clips,
- doing special photographic effects with filters, etc. Director's
- strengths are in creating a multimedia presentation that has lots of
- different objects (which can include QuickTime movies). .
-
- Director does have a steeper learning curve than Premiere, but if you
- need to create animations from scratch, you'll have to learn Director
- (or some other animation package). On the other hand, if you've
- already got a set of animations and digital video clips and audio
- tracks and stuff that you want to put together, Premiere is what you
- need. If you know the desktop publishing world at all, a rough
- analogy might be that Director is like FreeHand (for creation) and
- Premiere is like PageMaker (for compilation). (However, if you need
- to digitize video, Director won't help; I believe that the new Premiere
- will, as long as you get a digitizing board.)
-
- There are a lot of other, more specific differences, but not knowing
- what you want to do, it's hard to make a comparison (apples and
- oranges, y'know?)
-
- Judy Stern
- Instructional Technology Program
- UC Berkeley
- jstern@garnet.berkeley.edu
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