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Originally Posted by NoWhErE
Thats because Post houses usually edit content for TV, Film, DVD etc. and FCP's settings are more geared towards that type of production. Its easier to get your colors broadcast safe, export to tape, etc etc.
The Premiere suite is more geared towards the prosumer who creates media for the web. Its a bit trickier to use it in a broadcast environment.
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I'm a die hard Premiere Pro guy and find it to be the best. I can import XDCam EX, HDV, AVCHD and other common formats and edit without rendering. I also like the integration in the CS5 suite with Photoshop and Adobe Encore for DVD authoring. A lot of the reason that post-production houses and large tv and film companies have tended to use Avid and FCP for many years now has a lot to do with the collaboration. In other words, Avid and to a lesser extent FCP was better set up so that multiple editors could pore through many hours of footage and collaboratively work on editing projects using a common shared database of footage usually stored on a centralized server.
Think of ESPN, MTV and companies that process a lot of footage every week and need to have multiple people working on them 24/7. The features that support that kind of collaboration is something Premiere Pro lacked in the past and maybe still does now. But for individual worksations I think Premiere Pro is very intuitive and easy to learn. Not to mention it works on less expensive pcs than FCP.