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From: Tim S Kemp on 26 Jul 2008 17:30 Dave Plowman (News) wrote: > In article <1ikp8o7.fud1391v8ltcvN%steve(a)italiancar.co.uk>, > SteveH <steve(a)italiancar.co.uk> wrote: >> Also, although she's never used it for video editing, it'll do that >> quite nicely, thanks. Because it's something that Macs have always >> been good at. > > The premier pro edit system, Avid, is now PC rather than Mac based. In fact there are only two reasons I can think of for owning a Mac, Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro - two tools which are easier to get good results with than the PC equivalents. Everything else is turning or has turned PC. As you point out Avid has gone PC, Protools has gone PC, Premiere and Vegas are PC. Photoshop etc, all PC. In fact just checked (as not looked for ages) and Quark and Indesign have also kept with PC based stuff too!
From: SteveH on 26 Jul 2008 17:33 Tim S Kemp <news(a)DONTSPAMMEtimkemp.karoo.co.uk> wrote: > Dave Plowman (News) wrote: > > > In article <1ikp8o7.fud1391v8ltcvN%steve(a)italiancar.co.uk>, > > SteveH <steve(a)italiancar.co.uk> wrote: > >> Also, although she's never used it for video editing, it'll do that > >> quite nicely, thanks. Because it's something that Macs have always > >> been good at. > > > > The premier pro edit system, Avid, is now PC rather than Mac based. > > In fact there are only two reasons I can think of for owning a Mac, Final > Cut Pro and Logic Pro - two tools which are easier to get good results with > than the PC equivalents. > > Everything else is turning or has turned PC. As you point out Avid has gone > PC, Protools has gone PC, Premiere and Vegas are PC. Photoshop etc, all PC. > > In fact just checked (as not looked for ages) and Quark and Indesign have > also kept with PC based stuff too! Whilst some stuff that was Mac only is now available on both platforms (no doubt aided by the Apple transition to Intel processors) - there are significant advantages in running the Mac versions - namely the OS and its stability / ease of use. -- SteveH 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo' www.italiancar.co.uk - Ducati 750SS - Hongdou GY200 Alfa 75 TSpark - Alfa 156 TSpark - B6 Passat 2.0TDI SE
From: DanB on 26 Jul 2008 17:38 "SteveH" <steve(a)italiancar.co.uk> wrote in message news:1ikpil1.sr4p0h1sq8r81N%steve(a)italiancar.co.uk... > Tim S Kemp <news(a)DONTSPAMMEtimkemp.karoo.co.uk> wrote: > >> Dave Plowman (News) wrote: >> >> > In article <1ikp8o7.fud1391v8ltcvN%steve(a)italiancar.co.uk>, >> > SteveH <steve(a)italiancar.co.uk> wrote: >> >> Also, although she's never used it for video editing, it'll do that >> >> quite nicely, thanks. Because it's something that Macs have always >> >> been good at. >> > >> > The premier pro edit system, Avid, is now PC rather than Mac based. >> >> In fact there are only two reasons I can think of for owning a Mac, Final >> Cut Pro and Logic Pro - two tools which are easier to get good results >> with >> than the PC equivalents. >> >> Everything else is turning or has turned PC. As you point out Avid has >> gone >> PC, Protools has gone PC, Premiere and Vegas are PC. Photoshop etc, all >> PC. >> >> In fact just checked (as not looked for ages) and Quark and Indesign have >> also kept with PC based stuff too! > > Whilst some stuff that was Mac only is now available on both platforms > (no doubt aided by the Apple transition to Intel processors) - there are > significant advantages in running the Mac versions - namely the OS and > its stability / ease of use. > But for most people Windows is stable, and very easy to use. The only people that have problems are Mac owners heh. I tried to post this using my iPhone but whenever I hit send, it did the common crash where it just flicks to the home screen. D'oh, bloody Apple OS heh. (it might not be an Apple OS, I have no idea, and I was running a none-Apple app on it as well, it was just a joke)
From: Tim S Kemp on 26 Jul 2008 17:39 SteveH wrote: > Whilst some stuff that was Mac only is now available on both platforms > (no doubt aided by the Apple transition to Intel processors) - there > are significant advantages in running the Mac versions - namely the > OS and its stability / ease of use. Except that there isn't. I have a HP workstation running Premiere, and an Intel motherboarded PC also running Premiere. They don't crash, sometimes Premiere gets a bit on top of itself but they're fast, reliable and easy to use, and more people are familiar with Windows and its methods than OSX. I use both, the Mac purely for Logic. Software is the driver, part of me was tempted to make the second edit unit Final Cut Pro on a Mac Pro but when you added up the numbers it made no financial sense at all. I have clients with rooms full of PCs running multiple apps simultaneously, heavy ones like Microvellum, Solidworx and Inventor, and they don't crash either. Maybe the main problem is that people think a PC costs 249 (inc vat, monitor and Vista) from Asda, and then wonder why it struggles to run outlook, autocad and photoshop at the same time...
From: Dave Plowman (News) on 26 Jul 2008 17:56
In article <1ikpil1.sr4p0h1sq8r81N%steve(a)italiancar.co.uk>, SteveH <steve(a)italiancar.co.uk> wrote: > > In fact there are only two reasons I can think of for owning a Mac, > > Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro - two tools which are easier to get good > > results with than the PC equivalents. > > > > Everything else is turning or has turned PC. As you point out Avid has > > gone PC, Protools has gone PC, Premiere and Vegas are PC. Photoshop > > etc, all PC. > > > > In fact just checked (as not looked for ages) and Quark and Indesign > > have also kept with PC based stuff too! > Whilst some stuff that was Mac only is now available on both platforms > (no doubt aided by the Apple transition to Intel processors) - there are > significant advantages in running the Mac versions - namely the OS and > its stability / ease of use. In a pro environment the basic operating system matters little since it will only be running the one prog. -- *Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines * Dave Plowman dave(a)davenoise.co.uk London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |