[Bob Kiger]

Thanks Lucas for the general direction. History shows us that Macintosh has done a superior job of penetration into digital editing with Final Cut Pro over Adobe’s marketing of Premiere Pro.

It is astounding to us [Videography Lab] that Adobe/Microsoft with all their core coding in enabling video technologies would have allowed MAC to penetrate so deeply. I would hazard to say that the single MAC “unique selling proposition” is Quality. MACs look and perform seamlessly and in tune with today’s youthful world.

Alas. I have been a PC guy from DOS 1.0 and I have such a stockpile of software and hardware that is not MAC compatible so regarding a switch in Platform from MAC to PC, it does not seem practicable [legal term] in this case.

I agree that Dell and Toshiba have traditionally made some powerful laptops and if we delve a bit deeper you will see why I’m not sold on either yet!

It goes back to HD editing on the laptop. All assets have to be stored resident on the platform in order to take advantage of maximum buss speed. To the best of my knowledge, neither Dell or Toshiba, has ever deployed a Universal Drive Bay in their notebooks.

Universal Drive Bay allows swapping big hard drives [SS or traditional] as well as Blu Ray burners or many other devices into a slot on the side of the unit. This allows long form editors to have upwards of 2 TB of storage resident on the C: drive which is built in and the Universal Hard Drive[s]. Consider that if an editor had a couple of projects working at once, each project could have it’s own unique drive, which is inserted when the editor decides which project he will work on that day.

Besides UDB, some call it UniBay and many other names, the screen display must have native 1920×1080 resolution and the video card to support such dataflow.

[So does that make it a bit harder/easier a choice :]

Bob Kiger – Videography Lab

Bob Kiger aka Cruiser Bob . . . Author VIDEOGRAPHY! WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? copyrights 1972 – 2005

[Bob Kiger]

I finally found it with a complete search. I think that we need to be very careful where we put stuff 🙂

Bob Kiger aka Cruiser Bob . . . Author VIDEOGRAPHY! WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? copyrights 1972 – 2005