Opinion's on moving to Mac for video editing please?

Since a lot of Mac guys view this thread, have you guys seen the MacBook Air? Check it out, front page of the Apple website. The guided tour is pretty amazing. It doesn't even have an optical drive of any sort. What's crazy is that it doesn't need one!

 

IF i see you there I'll give you a good beating. annoying when I want to oogle geek porn!

Parris, you should have waited til tuesday and got office 08, unless you can upgrade for free. ITs a Universal binary (UB) meaning it runs natively on x86 (intel|) rather than being emulated from PPC.

Macbook air looks nice, and I'd be tempted if the footprint wasn't so big. I want a mac with approx a 10" screen!

 

I noticed that '08 was coming out, but the price I paid for the older version was very good, besides IF I do go down the route of partitioning the HDD to use Vista or XP then I have Office 08 for the PC already.

I did see the Macbook Air and wow, but ouch! (£££)

Just bought an AKG wireless microphone (discreet lapel type for video work) and Line 6 preamp system. Spent this evening with my guitar plugged into the iMac and messing around. Knocked together a rather ambient tune in no time at all, however I think the AKG is faulty and will be replacing it tomorrow.

 

Also incase your not intrested in getting a Mac but still having OSX, you should really try OSX86, it runs great on many machines... My Dell inspiron 6400 can edit videos Flawlessly with Final Cut Pro

 

Don't get a Mac just for the sake of getting a Mac. Get it because you prefer the OS and/or whatever video editing app you choose.

Most major apps work on both, e.g. Avid (excellent) or Premiere (not as good, but still good). I've used both - I prefer PC but Mac is still good for AV work.

 

Well I moved to Mac for a number of reasons, but frankly I've found it completely painless thus far. Tonight, because there are a plethora of dev related packages that run under Windows, I decided to investigate both 'Bootcamp' and using an application such as 'Parallel' or 'Fusion'. In the end I decided on using 'Fusion', mainly because I have been informed by several people that it is by far the most stable of the two.

I installed it and a genuine copy of Windows XP and have spent several hours setting everything up.

Now my PS2 Tool should be happy talking to ProDG+ on the Mac, but I have yet to establish the 'Network' aspect of the set-up. I'll tackle that further down the road, but all the software seems happy enough.

Also this means I can continue to learn/teach in-line with all my students who are using MS material rather than Mac. So, I've installed Office Pro '07 too. For the life of me I couldn't get Office '03 to run under it, so I ditched that attempt. I've got it on my laptop anyway.

However, the upshot of all this is I have done away with a Vista PC, can now seriously consider offloading my WinXP unit (although I really do want to see how this emulator runs before that) and my brother has the set-up his business required (or so he feels).

The amount of space that this has also freed up is also of benefit.

 

Just a word on editing raw RGB video data. 5 minutes is going to be around 8gig (DVD resolution) so I don't think you need to go and splash out on a 1TB hard drive unless you are thinking about 1080 full HD resolution video files. I work in raw RGB all the time and find it much faster than using any type of compression.

Yakumo

 

More like 3.5gig. Also, if you use a better lossless encoder than the standard DV format (like HuffYUV) then you'll be able to work with lower hard drive requirements.

 

Sorry, I should have said raw RGB video with PCM uncompressed audio. I used to use HuffYUV but found it to be too slow (i was using a shit PC though) and also found that software such as Adobe Premier and Adobe Flash Encoder were really fussy about it at times. Still, HuffYUV is a great codec if you aren't using Adobe video software. Works a treat in Virtual Dub.

Yakumo