It’s been a fantastic week for discovering alternatives in technology for me.

I’ve recently been learning a lot about Final Cut Pro, but never thought much about the other program used to edit videos, Adobe Premiere. Recently in my Digital Literacy Initiative literature class we’ve been talking more about how to turn a paper into a digital argument, and one of the big ways is through video. On our given laptops we have Premiere pre-loaded, so I thought I would give it a try. I quickly found out that Premiere doesn’t particularly like opening on laptops, as I had multiple crashes and even some losses of data, but managed to look at the program and see how it works. One of the things I really like about it is that even though it might not be intuitive when going from something like Windows Movie Maker or a simpler program, it is intuitive when moving from Final Cut Pro. The two programs are in no ways exactly alike, but they share the same feeling when looking at them from the beginning. A quick exploration of the program, though I eventually did give up on it as it had no fondness for the laptop at all, and I was impressed at all of the different features that gave me so many possibilities. To me it doesn’t look as polished as Final Cut Pro, but then I did have experience using iMovie before that, so the configuration on Apple computers is more familiar. I believe in the coming weeks I will attempt to do some more exploration into Adobe Premiere. I would definitely encourage others to take a look at both programs, because one may be easier to use than the other for Apple and PC users.

Happy Editing!