FCP X FAQ-Slap in the Face?

[Pierre Jasmin]

You can use bootcamp to run Windows on your mac hardware. No additional hardware needed.

Pierre

[Chris Borjis]

I run a lot of other mac applications though, I suppose dual booting could be an option.

on another note, looks like adobe has fixed the “issues” with AJA at least according to Walter B:

“Happily I can now run my AJA Kona boards smoothly with CS 5.5 thanks to the new 9.0.1 Plug-In release.”

[Gary Huff]

[Chris Borjis][T]he unfortunate aspect is a lot of us are heavily vested in the mac hardware we have and doing a 180 swap into pc land would be painful.

I think what Apple does with the Mac Pro lines will be telling. If, instead of refreshing it, they drop them entirely from their lineup, I think not only will you see the switch to AVID/Premiere, but also a switch over to Windows 7 machines.

[Pierre Jasmin]

I don’t know that Premiere is any different on Mac (as long as you have NVidia card and proper drivers). I am not sure what the status is right now, the suite itself used to have more apps on windows. I think it was audio tools related.

I read somewhere that there is an issue with NTFS formatted disks and FCP X not liking that – not sure it’s true, but that would be an issue with multi-boot and wanting to access assets from both boots.

Pierre

[Chris Borjis]

agreed Gary

Ideally in the product cycle i’m in with my 2009 octocore systems, they have at least another 2 years use before an upgrade/PC switch over is considered.

[Paul Escamilla]

here’s a very scary thought. What if Apple buys Avid and Adobe and kills off Premiere and Media Composer? Then what?

[Gary Huff]

Then all those people who wished for Apple to have a monopoly on the technology sector will get their wish.

Won’t life be grand then?

[Lucas Merino]

[Paul Escamilla] “here’s a very scary thought. What if Apple buys Avid and Adobe and kills off Premiere and Media Composer? Then what?”

Open Source Editshare

As per Premiere on osx vs. Windows… at work I have a Mac Pro that I dual boot with bootcamp. I have the same versions of Premiere CS5 on both setups and it just clearly works better on the Windows side. This is the exact same hardware, being that it’s the exact same machine.

On the Mac side, when I try to rapidly zoom-in-zoom-out on the timeline (which I do a lot) it just drags. Also moving clips around on the timeline, for some reason seems more clunky on the Mac side.

The only reason I boot up into OSX is for FCP 7. If it weren’t for that, I would have every other application I use on the Windows side (adobe suite, avid, Cinema 4D, various compression software, etc.)