[Greg Janza]

[andy patterson] “Does Apple have an answer to the MS Surface Studio? If not Apple could go bankrupt like in the past.”

Apple has a market cap of $900 billion. The next closest tech company is Samsung at $300 billion. I don’t think bankruptcy is on the immediate horizon.

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[Greg Janza]

[Olivier Prudhomme] “isn’t this the kind of things PCs allow you to install later? Which would be great because I agree I should have it”

that’s what i thought when i started looking to add TB3 to my system and I quickly discovered that for my system, TB3 compatibility required me getting a new motherboard. It’s not a difficult process to swap out a motherboard though. You need to determine what CPU you’re going to purchase and then find a motherboard that’s compatible with that CPU and chipset.

Here’s a list of TB3 motherboards:

https://thunderbolttechnology.net/products?tid=15&field_company_nid=All&field_prod_os_value_many_to_one=All&field_prod_tb_version_value_many_to_one=tbv3

I have an i7-5820k cpu and so I went with a gigabyte x-99p-sli motherboard. My system is pretty fast but my cpu is now a couple years old so you’ll probably go with a newer CPU. Look at the specs of the motherboards and each will say what CPU’s are compatible.

[Olivier Prudhomme] “I know Macs so well that I don’t want to be stuck when a client is in my edit bay…”

This is the biggest challenge but I wouldn’t let it stop you from going to a PC. Windows 10 has a graphical interface similar to OSX but where windows becomes a bit daunting is that many of the older windows settings which are located in the old school control panel are also still in use so it’s a matter of getting used to two sets of control panels. This is where youtube will be your best instructor. The tips and tricks are endless as well as troubleshooting ideas.

[Olivier Prudhomme] “What is your current setting as far as graphic card?”

I have the GeForce GTX 970 and I’m very happy with it. At this point though you’ll probably want the 980 card.

[Olivier Prudhomme] “I want to be ready to work with 4K which my brand new iMac failed to deliver on (hence being returned to bestbuy). I had to create proxies.”

Eliminating proxies from my workflow was what started me on the conversion from mac to pc. My specs are now a couple of years old but I have no issues editing 4k in full res and with luts attached. The added part of the equation though is having fast drives/raid and a fast cache/render drive.

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[Greg Janza]

are you aware of this thing called google?

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[Greg Janza]

I made the switch just over a year ago with no regrets.

A few suggestions to make the switch as smooth as possible:
1. go to the Adobe hardware forum and get recommendations on the best possible system for your budget. There are numerous options.
2. If you can stretch your budget a bit you can also have Thunderbolt3.
3. The main hurdle in making the switch is getting used to the endless myriad of settings on the PC side as opposed to the simple system
preferences on Mac. Watch tutorials to get up to speed.
4. If your workflow has always involved Quicktime and Pro-res, get up to speed with the equally high-quality DNxHD codec.

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[Greg Janza]

It’s surprising to hear that tech support would actually play a role in deciding on a system these days. Most technical issues can be dealt with through web searches or queries on forums like this one.

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[Greg Janza]

[Tom Sefton] “but no UK local tech support makes them impossible for us. “

Just out of curiosity, what kind of local tech support do you actually need?

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[Greg Janza]

If the media is more than 20-30gigs the most efficient workflow is to ship a drive to the editor.

Working with an editor remotely should be a pretty straightforward thing. And if you need to collaborate during the edit I’d recommend using Skype because of Skype’s ability to share a screen. I recently worked with a remote producer through skype and it worked well. She and I could talk through our edit and she could watch whatever I selected on the timeline or in the source window.

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[Greg Janza]

[Don Scioli] “These are ridiculous products that nobody needs but continues to establish the makers core vision.”

The one difference with the Apple paradigm these days is that besides FCPX there really isn’t a differentiating aspect to the product. The PC world surpassed the Apple product line in benchmarks quite awhile ago and most apps are platform agnostic so it becomes harder now to justify the added cost.

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[Greg Janza]

[Craig Seeman] “With that option why would anyone want an 8th generation Hex Core i7 with GTX 1080 for $1500?”

Because on the PC side you can take advantage of CUDA processing which is superior to OpenGL.

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[Greg Janza]

newegg links work for me.

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