Phillip Bloom goes to the dark side

[Steve Connor]

Here’s an update on Phil’s move to the dark side

\”Traditional NLEs have timelines. FCPX has storylines\” W.Soyka

[Scott Witthaus]

So the Premiere “infomercial” glow is wearing off a bit….

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Visual Storyteller
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[John Rofrano]

[Steve Connor] “Here’s an update on Phil’s move to the dark side”

LOL, This is exactly what I have been saying. PC’s are all shiny and new at first… until they’re not! Phil hit the nail on the head, “I totally understand the difficulties you have with countless user hardware configurations…” and THAT is the bane of the Windows PC’s existence. Too many variations to take into account when developing software for it.

Andy Patterson commented on my earlier post about using a Quadro 4000 in my PC build saying, “The Quadro cards don’t offer the best bang for the buck.”… yes, but they offer rock solid stability. So while other PC users where complaining on the forums about their “gaming” GTX video cards, I was laughing because my Quadro card was incredibly stable. So I paid for stability, not performance. That’s why I now only buy Macs. High quality parts that are incredibly stable as a hardware/software combination and I could care less if you can build a PC with more power for less because you eventually will be wasting your time debugging why your PC is locking up like Phil now is instead of getting real work done like I am on my Mac.

Like I said before, I’ve been using Windows PC’s for over 33 years and I know what a pile of cr*p Windows is and you couldn’t pay me to use it again. MacOS is so far superior on so many levels it’s not even a contest. Steve Jobs understood the incredible power in owning both the hardware and software. It yields a user experience that Windows just can’t match no matter how hard they try.

~jr

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http://www.vasstsoftware.com

[Brian Seegmiller]

[Bernard Newnham]

At the university where I work there are hundreds of PCs in use by students every day. There are new ones and old ones across a number of buildings, and most software is held on a central server somewhere. I can sit down at any machine and expect any of the Adobe programs, and a lot more, to just work. I’m no lover of Adobe and their payment model – here at home I’ve stopped at CS6 – but I’m surprised that Phillip Bloom is having big problems with the software.

Bernie

[Brian Seegmiller]

Maybe his super duper PC is not all that great after all. Still, Premiere is known for a lot of bugs that have never been fixed

[Michael Gissing]

I’ve been using four OSs for many years. Win7 & Win 10, Mac OS and Linux Mint. I have not had major issues with any of them and overall I would say Linux is the best. My philosophy is clear. Keep all but Linux off the internet except for brief updates or licensing software when it suits me.

Don’t put lots of other programs on each computer. I have Fairlight and Reaper on one Win 7 machine. Not much else except an old version of CS6 which almost gets no use other than Media Encoder occasionally. Resolve, Affinity and Cinec on a Win 10. FCP7 on OSX Snow Leopard almost never used anymore. They all have plusses and minuses but it is no contest when it comes to hardware. Mac offer nothing that suits me for power performance to cost plus their configurations and lack of NVIDIA support and internal PCI slots make them unsuited to my tasks.

Maybe Phillip will end up where I am thinking of heading. A custom built rack mount PC hardware grunt box (an upgrade replacing MOBO, RAM and NVIDIA card) running Resolve only on Linux. That’s the light side folks.

[Claude Lyneis]

There is a cost in time and effort to deal with Windows vs buying more expensive hardware from Apple. None of this is new. I would rather spend my limited brain cells on editing than operating systems.

[Greg Janza]

[Michael Gissing] “Keep all but Linux off the internet except for brief updates or licensing software when it suits me. “

Michael your advice overall seems very logical but I have to ask how folks out there that do keep their edit systems off the internet maintain an efficient workflow.

I’ve been tethered to the internet with my edit systems for as long as the internet has existed. It’s never caused a problem for me but I know that there are risks. However, pretty much everything I do involves getting media from the internet to add to my project – music, sound effects, stock shots, stills, logos, etc., etc.

Anything other than having an internet connected edit system seems inefficient.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Michael Gissing]

[Greg Janza] “Michael your advice overall seems very logical but I have to ask how folks out there that do keep their edit systems off the internet maintain an efficient workflow.”

I run Linux on my laptop. It is connected to the other computers on my network. It is connected also to the internet so all software and file up and downloads are performed by this machine. I have a few NAS units connected to all computers and this is where media and software goes. If I need a system update, I change the network connections on each machine to point it towards the internet via my main router (it means editing the settings for DNS and gateway which is simple). Once OS updates are done, I disconnect the computer from the internet but not the local network by deleting the gateway and DNS.

I’ve done it that way for ever. It means the Win machines are not running anti virus software that may affect performance and won’t update at annoying times.