For me, it is the easy ability of Premiere to handle
editing of multi-camera shoots... It is also easy to
set it up for timeline editing, the format used by
MSP, but it appears to offer easier manipulation of
some things (or, maybe I'm just more used to how it
operates...;-).

On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 11:30:54 -0500, "Dennis Pierce" wrote:

>The major advantage for me in using Premiere is the ability to import still
>images without changing their aspect ratio. Since I have over 5000 slides
>to convert to video, it was the feature that made the difference for me.
>The version of MSP that I had did not do this.
>
>Dennis
>
>"Warren Young" wrote in message
>news:3B7D986E.E98548AE@etr-usa.com...
>> Ken Morris wrote:
>> >
>> > Ok what are the advantages of Adobe Premiere version over MGI Videowave
>> > or Ulead Video or VirtualDub for that matter ?
>>
>> So far in this thread it's basically come down to "Premiere vs ULead
>> MSP", and I've seen a lot of arguments for using MSP over Premiere, but
>> I haven't yet seen mention of the biggest advantage Premiere has over
>> MSP. The single biggest reason Premiere remains the most popular ~$500
>> video editing program is third party support. Every video plugin maker,
>> every video capture board maker, and every video book writer are all at
>> least aware of Premiere, and by and large they all try to make their
>> products at least Premiere-aware.
>>
>> I know this sounds like FUD, but make sure you understand that you're
>> turning your back on that vast third-party market when you decide that
>> you don't want to use Premiere. This is very much like choosing to use
>> Linux instead of Windows 2000: you have to do so advisedly. (Speaking
>> as one who uses both Linux and Windows 2000 on a daily basis, and does
>> things each OS that he wouldn't even attempt on the other OS.)
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