brash_stryker said:

I've been having some problems with quality of output in Premiere, as well as certain things not being as straightforward as they should be (such as there being no feathered edge option for wipes)

I'm therefore considering moving to Final Cut on a Hackintosh partition. I don't mind starting from scratch with my editing as it will give me an opportunity to learn Final Cut properly (I want a job in editing). And it's not like I have to come up with everything from scratch again. I can export my Premiere project to a video file and use that as reference.

Any thoughts?

What version are you using? I love premiere as an editor but it can kinda suck when rendering out. It loves to tell you "Error compiling movie" and when you do research all the adobe boards tell you to remove effects... Which sucks... However, I have had pretty good luck rendering out a high quality mpeg2 if you want to try that.