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Huh, I thought premiere was the most popular editor on this board.

I started on Premiere back in the day, before moving on to Final Cut. In a case of bizarre fortune years later, I was the editor that first showed Premiere Pro 1.5's ability to edit HD to Dell, Sony, HP, and the Windows group (at the National Association of Broadcasters in Vegas). The truth was *at the time* the program couldn't really handle HD properly (even with the required third party plugins and the $10g PC they sent me). I realized that the gig landed at my door after several Premiere-only editors, never having HD experience, turned it away. Having been on FCP for a while, I assumed HD would be nearly as simple on the program I cut my teeth on. But everyday I was one worried step away from simply chopping the video on my g4 and then slapping an Adobe and Windows logo on it lol.

Premiere has come a long way since then. I haven't messed with it's current HD workflow but I'm assuming they've gotten everything working well. I think it's a decent program - when i cut SD on it back in the day I was mainly hampered by Windows stability issues, not any issues with the program itself. With every update Premiere looks more and more like the FCP layout which sucks for Premiere fanboys that hate FCP. Despite that the subtle details are quite different and a matter of preference - I find FCP more intuitive to my personal needs.

Unfortunately I never learned After Effects, though many people guess I'm good at it because of some of the whacky effects in NVP and Dogs. But that was all just done in Final Cut. i always wanted to learn AE though. I'm hopefully gonna learn motion with year.

Photoshop cs3 is awesome as you can import HD Quicktime clips and edit them frame by frame with the standard gamut of photoshop tools.

Anyway, don't have that much to say other than Premiere is OK, but Adobe rocks for giving me an awesome gig in Vegas.