Bernard Newnham
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I edit on Premiere at normal HD, no 4k, usually exporting in H264. I’d prefer AS11, but the Tricaster we use can’t cope with that (rubbish things, Tricasters) .
For many years I upgraded my PCs every 18 months or so, when things seemed a bit slow. I’m a big fan of Asus, so generally an Asus motherboard and GeForce GPU (with CUDA of course). Now I find I haven’t needed a major upgrade for a while, which still surprises me. I’m not broke, I can afford any sensible current stuff, but I don’t spend what don’t need to spend. The thing runs fast enough.
It’s been so long that I needed Belarc Advisor to find out what I currently have –
3.30 gigahertz Intel Core i5-2500
ASUSTeK Computer INC. P8Z68-V LE Rev X.0x
8174 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960So for us ordinary people doing ordinary stuff, I don’t think you need a Ferrari equivalent.
……and who needs support, in the UK or anywhere? My gear has largely just worked for years. I upgraded the GPU a while back, mostly because I fancied moving up from the GeForce 460. The system worked pretty much the same afterwards. The new GPU came from a UK supplier in a couple of days and the switch took a couple of minutes. No special importing required.
Bernie
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“It is up to the end users to boycott Apple until they offer the price/performance of the competition. Asus, MSI and Lenovo all have to be competitive or they will go bankrupt. Apple not so much.”
I can’t help feeling that a boycott would be completely unnoticed by Apple, so wasted time. On the other hand, those boycotting would find a whole new and much cheaper world, and never return.
I’ve been building computers since the mid-nineties. My first was because I couldn’t get what I wanted for a graphics system at the BBC and no-one in engineering would help. So – a Matrox Digisuite with a Windows NT built round it. That first machine build was really scary and was physically tricky. The job has became much easier down the years, and is now much like Lego. Pretty much anything plugs into anything and generally just works. No more watching those blue dots hoping that NT will load.
I’m certain that anyone with any technical skill at all could build a computer. There are heaps of DIY videos on YouTube, and somewhere amongst the dross there’s bound to be one that’s helpful. I’ve managed it about ten times now without any kind of tutor. It must be easy.
Bernie
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[Steve Connor] “Firstly welcome back Bernard it’s nice to hear from you”
Thank you – very kind. I must admit that I was expecting to ghost through and depart, but reading this thread is quite nostalgic, though as I said the balance does seem to have changed.
Several years ago I responded to a challenge by Jeremy Garchow to cost similarly specced Macs and PCs. The PC won hands down, and it could be updated at any time – I imagine the same could be said now. Lots of people seem to have now worked that out, though a man a few posts up says ” that doesn’t require me to keep digging into the OS just to mount or use a new app.”. Don’t know what he’s been trying. Windows NT?
Bernie
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This is the first time I’ve been back to this forum for a year or more. I’m rather surprised to find that after all this time people are still waiting on “the next MacPro, iMac, whatever” to come out, but less surprised that there’s a whole load more people that have moved to Hackintoshes and indeed PCs.
I made my own move a few years ago, when FCP7 went away. The Hackintosh that had replaced the G4 was easily re-purposed into a W7 PC, and first Edius then Premiere replaced FCP7. Some people seem a bit obsessed by operating systems, but as someone else points out – you’re in the application most of the time, so who cares? I’ve been through a lot of of operating systems down the years, and like different cars they’re all different and all the same.
Being able to update at any point for much less money than buying a Mac would seem to be a no brainer, but I’m just a now retired BBCtv producer/editor/cameraman etc. These days I teach uni students, but need to keep up so as to not lose cred factor. There’s a lots of delivery format discussion here, but in the UK this has been standardised for delivery to the big broadcasters as AS11. See – https://www.digitalproductionpartnership.co.uk/publications/theme/as-11/
Bernie
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How to do it, by the BBC –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZVaK2TKgFA
Bernie
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Done – and I really do appreciate the ads on this site for their usefulness and the restraint in their use. Not a bra ad in sight.
Bernie
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I didn’t bother with ad block software until the level and style of the ads just became too much. I felt that I was being stalked – and I was. All those context sensitive ads that looked at what I or my wife or family had bought and just kept chucking more at us. At times I was surrounded by bra ads.
Eventually I succumbed and just installed Adblock on my browser. Of course it blocks everything, including ads on this site, which I didn’t mind at all and which were at times useful intros to equipment I didn’t know about, and which I know pay for the site.
Everything in moderation – hopefully advertisers will work that out soon enough.
Bernie
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Tim, you are a wise man.
Bernie
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Despite being a British sport hater, I do understand the rules of football – the worldwide version not the American – but having tried a few times, I just can’t work out the American one. There seems to be an awful lot of standing around.
Here’s a famous explanation of how cricket is played. Perhaps an American on here can do the same for “football”, or carry ball, as far as I can tell.
Cricket: As explained to a foreigner…
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that’s in the side that’s in goes out, and when he’s out he comes in and the next man goes in until he’s out. When they are all out, the side that’s out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.
When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!Bernie
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“Yes, Bernard. Great memories. That looks like a newer RCA quad machine.”
Apologies for going so far off topic, but you did put it in your sig.
That’s a Ampex AVR2. The BBC was full of them, and all of ours had the footbrake that he mentions. I was never an editor, but I spent a lot of my youth in editing areas at the BBC as a producer making promotions –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuekNp4Geu8
Though that was probably 1″ or D3, 2″ was the environment where I learned to make quick decisions, owing to the fact that changing tapes often took more time than editing the clips. I only started editing myself when non-linear came along, first on Eidos Optima, then on all flavours of FCP up to 7. Then Edius and PPro.
Bernie
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