FCP or Adobe Premier - Win or Mac

I'd suggest sticking with what you have and using Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere)
For the non broadcast formats you want to work with and the nature of what you want to do then its probably your best bet (and I'm not suggesting the Adobe's product is no good for broadcast work but rather that it is supposed to be particularly good with its native handling of these non broadcast formats).

Well, just about anyone here will of course be a Mac supporter, so you may want to post this over at the Cow or 2-Pop forums to get a less biased answer. That having been said, looking at your list of requirements, either setup will do most of these things. The exceptions:
-You'd want to convert your AVI-wrapped files to something more Mac-friendly before editing with them in FCS2, which may not be the case with Premiere.
-FCS2 will likely do a better job with transcoding to Mac-based formats (iPod, AppleTV, etc).
-FCS2 cannot author to Blu-Ray Disc, while Adobe Encore can (though the results aren't spectacular).

I'm with Andy. With the formats you are working with, Adobe will be the better answer. Works on Macs and PC, so platform is up to you.

Shane

Do you bill by the hour? Then, with your mix of codecs, sources, and destinations, you should get a Mac & Final Cut. Lots more billable hours.

OTOH, if you'll be doing a lot of long form features, then Premiere is not the best tool.

From what you've said. it sounds like Adobe is your best bet. Keepin' it real.

Since this is the FCP forum, I say you want to stick with your PC and upgrade the Adobe products. Stick with what you know.

Keep your eye on the spinning hourglass. You're getting sleepy.

Forget the Macintosh, you will never like the OS.
Forget FCP and the studio apps, you will never like how the interfaces work because you will never like the OS.

You're getting sleeeeeepy.
Follow my advice.
The other guys don't know what they're talking about, you must not listen to them.

bogiesan

I don't care what system you buy.
We can't make up your mind and for you to ask us how we would spend your money is, at best, irresponsible and, at worst, silly.
These are business and personal financial decisions.
This is not the place to ask anyone to compare editing platforms or operating systems. Reviews of these tools are all over the place. We're not blindly endorsing FCP but we are deeply invested in our Macs and FCP. You WILL get some questions form us that you need to consider.
Do your research, evaluate your risks, assess your potential to recover your investment and make an intelligent decision based on your needs and abilities.

I'll be here to help you use FCP if that's what you buy.

bogiesan

That's what I meant to say.

LOL!

If you do a lot of shuffling of files between AE, P-shop and Premiere your life will probably easier with your current setup. As someone else mentioned, Premiere is up to it for short form and multimedia stuff, for more traditional long form stuff it's FCP.

So much for listening to advice ...

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