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In article <Bs3xIx.C8@solbourne.com> ericr@solbourne.com (Eric Robison) writes:
>I need to buy either Director or Premier RSN.  Anybody out there
>got any good comparisons?  

My first response to your question is that they're very different 
types of products, though there are places where their functionality 
overlaps. Premiere is mostly a QuickTime editing package. Director is 
mostly an animation package. Premiere's strengths are in video 
editing kinds of things: creating transitions between video clips, 
doing special photographic effects with filters, etc.  Director's 
strengths are in creating a multimedia presentation that has lots of 
different objects (which can include QuickTime movies).  .  

Director does have a steeper learning curve than Premiere, but if you 
need to create animations from scratch, you'll have to learn Director 
(or some other animation package). On the other hand, if you've 
already got a set of animations and digital video clips and audio 
tracks and stuff that you want to put together, Premiere is what you 
need. If you know the desktop publishing world at all, a rough 
analogy might be that Director is like FreeHand (for creation) and 
Premiere is like PageMaker (for compilation).  (However, if you need 
to digitize video, Director won't help; I believe that the new Premiere 
will, as long as you get a digitizing board.)

There are a lot of other, more specific differences, but not knowing 
what you want to do, it's hard to make a comparison (apples and 
oranges, y'know?)

Judy Stern
Instructional Technology Program
UC Berkeley
jstern@garnet.berkeley.edu