Aye, from my experience with both, FCE's really just stripped down FCP--less bells and whistles and filters, and none of the extra studio software. Which sucks, because Compressor would have gotten me out of a lot of trouble on occasion, but hey.
ETA: wrt timestamps--I've always thought that troubles I've had with syncing with DV have been either due to the conversion process being a strain on my processor, or the fact that DV's so damn bulky a format that doing anything too funky with it in FCP/FCE (which already takes up a chunk of memory) means stability goes to hell. I've sort of always ascribed that to the fact that I'm on a fairly old MacBook (2008 2.4 Ghz Intel dual) though, as DV's got to be stable in FCP overall or it wouldn't be used professionally for footage filmed/taped in DV format, right? Right?
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Date: 2013-01-17 07:56 pm (UTC)ETA: wrt timestamps--I've always thought that troubles I've had with syncing with DV have been either due to the conversion process being a strain on my processor, or the fact that DV's so damn bulky a format that doing anything too funky with it in FCP/FCE (which already takes up a chunk of memory) means stability goes to hell. I've sort of always ascribed that to the fact that I'm on a fairly old MacBook (2008 2.4 Ghz Intel dual) though, as DV's got to be stable in FCP overall or it wouldn't be used professionally for footage filmed/taped in DV format, right? Right?
(oh god are they lying to me walter murch noooo)
I could just be completely off base, though.