Interesting time to jump or not to jump…

[David Cherniack]

To echo Bob:

CS5.5 is quite brilliant; stable, plays just about everything natively with real time effects and should be considered by anyone who doesn’t want to wait if it’s going to take Apple some time to get FCP-X up to speed. Just saying.

David
AllinOneFilms.com

[Peter lloyd Culley]

I want to thank you all for responding to my first ever post on Creative Cow. What a fantastic wealth of expertise and wisdom… Reminds me of why I love working in this industry.

I’m reading in detail all responses and know this all will play an integral part in my final decsision which may well be both PC and MAC… Is that playing a loaded deck? Well I’m not in Vegas… (the place;)

I have pottered along on a humble Dell duo for the last few years with PPCS3&4 and managed to put out some stuff I can live with… The bulk of my work has been graphic related and PSD orientated so no issues there that cant be improved by going to a 64 bit whatever…

BUT more video story telling opportunities are evolving, particularly web based delivery… So I am no BBC or National Geographic candidate but I am enamoured with the process.

How can one not be excited with SSD and all sorts of options on the horizon. I empathise with those with gazillions invested in platforms only to feel unlurved and can see why some have such firm opinions.

So upshot? Hell I may just get a 27 imac with 16GB of ram, have my thunderbolt ready for what must be coming and jump in and see for myself what I have been missing? Worst case scenario I have something very nice to use as a general computer for surfing the wonderful web.

Gentlemen, thankyou once again. I have really enjoyed reading your responses. Have a great weekend.

[David Roth weiss]

[Matt Callac] “I’ll certainly take pizza as it beats a copy of the DVD, but preference is always tacos.”

For you Matt, lobster would probably be the right form of payment, but if you don’t come running to my defense when I need ya I’ll have to chow down on the lobsters so I have the energy to fight.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.

[Craig Seeman]

[Peter Lloyd Culley] “my final decsision which may well be both PC and MAC”

Bootcamp and Parallels. My 8 core Mac is also running Windows 7 Professional 64bit. There are a number of Windows only tools I use in my work. For file compression analysis the free Bitrate Viewer is Windows only and there’s no Mac equivalent, for example. On those rare occasions where I must do WMV encoding, Microsoft Expression does that free (Windows only). Macs run Windows very well these days so there’s no reason buying a Mac would stop you from using it as a PC when needed. So often we see forum posts with “I’ve edited this in FCP but will it play on Windows.” There’s nothing like being able to test directly either lightly in Parallels or booted into Windows itself with Bootcamp.