Gary Huff
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I am not interested in building our own machines. No thanks, I have enough to do.”
That’s fine. It may not be cheaper for you, but for those of us (like me) who can easily do so, it will be cheaper.
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[Andrew Richards] “I rest my case (yes, I know that is Win8). What a cluster-f.”
That’s Microsoft Office, not Windows.
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Unfortunately, I think Windows 8 is going to be a steaming pile.
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DLL Hell: What are you doing that requires you to mess around with DLL files? I’m always in the guts of my system and rarely have to mess with this.
The Registry (and the all too frequent necessity to muddle with it): How frequently and why? I’ve hit up the Registry my fair share of times too, but only for special circumstances, and since Windows 7, it’s incredibly rare as well.
Drive letter assignments (instead of proper UNIX arbitrary mounting): Completely agree with this. This is archaic and needs to die. I’m sure Microsoft only keeps it because it would otherwise be a huge compatibility break.
The Ribbon/Aero (talk about sloppy overwrought chrome): I don’t really see this as a problem. I think Windows 7’s interface is actually kind of nice.
Convoluted control panels (or bafflingly absent ones, like NTP setup): OSX’s System Preferences is only marginally better IMHO, though Windows 7’s customized control panel interface can make it really hard to find stuff. You can turn that off and basically make it look like OSX’s though.
Ugly screen fonts: Never noticed this.
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The fact that you’re scared to do it doesn’t mean that others might not be interested.
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[Herb Sevush] “Reliability and ease are key for me. If I’m switching to PPro on a windows machine I want to be able to encode either from within PPro or AME”
And that is solely Apple’s fault. Premiere is required to utilize QuickTime 7 to encode QuickTime files under Windows (outside of writing in the functionality from scratch), and until Apple allows encoding to ProRes using QuickTime 7, it’s a no-go.
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[Bobby Mosca] If I have to move to Windows for my editing machine, it would take an act of Congress to get me to go online with that thing, or leave it connected at all.
But wait, there’s more!
I haven’t caught a virus in decades on my HP because I know what I’m doing, but I never feel safe on it.
So you haven’t gotten a virus in decades, but yet you don’t feel safe because of… (drumroll please)…PROPAGANDA!
I haven’t gotten a virus in decades either. And I feel completely safe taking my Windows machine online.
And given that OSX/iOS is itself also not immune to malware, why do you still feel safe taking your Mac online?
Propaganda for $500, Alex.
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[Herb Sevush] Many of my deliverable are in ProRes and there’s no good way to encode it on a PC that I’m aware of. I’m hoping, hard, that either someone comes out with a good, reliable PC ProRes encoder or that the market opens up to other deliverables (DNxHD ??) but for the moment I’m shackled to OSX.
This is Apple’s fault. They finally included the ProRes codecs in QuickTime 7 (Win) in 2008, but only for decoding. You could easily encode to ProRes if they’d open it up in QuickTime, but so far that functionality remains locked.
Wikipedia has some information about third-party software that can encode ProRes on Windows. You can also do it for free using 5DtoRGB for Windows.
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[Bill Hall] Either we will see a lively discussion or a fist fight.
Probably more along the lines of “eye rolling” than “fist fight”.
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[Jeremy Garchow] Have you tried this? This would be the worst situation of them all. At least Bootcamp is a supported venture.
Have you? It used to be a huge PITA, but now it’s quite streamlined, and given the new unified NVIDIA driver architecture for OSX, seems like it’s getting easier.
However, you can’t just go out and purchase an pre-built machine. That’s fraught with potential difficulties. The best chance of success is to find components that are most compatible, and there are some great resources for helping you do just that.