I must start out saying that I don't make a living doing film editing I just do it as a hobby but I just don't see what the big deal is about final cut. I really, really want to use it but I find that Premiere Pro does a better job. I guess my problem is the timeline real time editing. I can drop all my clips and transitions in the time line on Premiere Pro and its there..no rendering or warning messages that I have to cut off unlimited rt (which I don't even have on by the way). I can watch the video in real time which I can't seem to do with Final Cut with out it stopping Or having to render. I have a Q6600 Quad-core computer so I wouldn't think thats the problem along with 8 gigs of memory. Any help would be grateful because Im sure it might be something Im doing. I really want to use Final Cut but right now Premiere pro seems to do well for me.

probably its a habit.
many are of the opinion that Final Cut is a best tool for video editing.
but i still use Liquid - it's comfortable for me,
the most convenient tool, I would say

Also depends on what format you are shooting on.
certain Canon formats will only capture (easily.) in FCP.

My favorite for video editing on a computer had to be a Video Toaster Flyer on an Amiga commodore 4000, software made by Newtek. It was easy to use, no rendering, and it was more of a video sequncer then timeline editor. Your video clips were called croutons and it had what they called the "kitchen sync" for fixing timebase code and non brodcast video's. . .

I've been using FCP 2 for quite sometime now, it works, I hate the rendering but don't have a machine fast enuff for Premiere CS4. . .

perfect for news packages

So ts not just me...I am a Ma c man through and through but Premiere is better for real time rendering. I guess its what you get use to.

that's right. Different strokes for different folks. . .