MAC or PC

[James Goodman]

Hi Darin

I have been a Premiere user since the late 90’s and in June of this year looked at upgrading to a new PC so I could edit EX1 HD footage and my PC supplier suggested I go with a Mac so I bought a MacPro 2×3.0Ghz and then changed my Adobe Master Suite to the Mac version for a nominal fee. It works great although the transitions are limited but I do not use many fancy ones. All my friends use FCP and I have been trying it but it has a terrible title maker plus I have yet to find a way to save a trimmed project (where media files are trimmed to within a few secs of what is used in the project) for archive use.

I did not find it any problem using the Mac and it has been very stable but I only use it for Adobe work – I have a PC for general use (email, internet etc.) As a note my Mac sees and upload/download over my network to my PC’s but my PC’s do not see my Mac and I have not bothered to trouble shoot this.

The other reason I am trying FCP is that it works with the Matrox MXO so you can colour grade on a Apple Cinema Display – CS3 will not play realtime EX1 footage via the MXO and Matrox have withdrawn support for CS3 and the MXO. Hopefully Adobe and Matrox with make up and get it sorted out for CS4

James

[Darin Miyashiro]

Thanks James!
Wow, you got the BIG MAC PRO! Awesome machine.
Do you think a Macbook Pro 15″ 2.4ghz can handle video editing with
external drives?

So you use Adobe Premier CS3 on your MAC? Does it take long to
load HDV projects? Currently on my quad pc, it takes very very long
to load an HDV project.

Thanks for the input! All that APPLE marketing has gotten to me.
They look so cool! hahhaa. Even on adobe.tv website..all the trainers
use macpros and imacs to do their demos. Not once have i seen a pc being used.

Darin

[James Goodman]

Darin

On my machine the projects load quickly (in my estimation) and regards your using a MacBook laptop checkout Philip Bloom who I follow since he is an expert with the Sony EX1 (my camera) and he travels all over the world and edits a lot of his HD footage on his Macbook Pro (admittedly with FCP) – google him and check his website.

James

[Darin Miyashiro]

James, thanks!
I’ll take a look for his info on the web.
How did you get the Adobe upgrade for MAC from a PC?

[James Goodman]

Darin

I called the Adobe store and after I faxed them my signed agreement that I would no longer use my PC version and paid them $25 they sent me a full boxed Mac version of my Master Suite CS3. Very easy and fast.

Some people have a windows partition on their Intel Mac and run the PC version of Premiere on their Mac’s – although I have that option I took the plunge and left my era of Windows based video editing behind me.

James