Mac vs. PC: Digital Video Editing Comparison

mnemonic writes "DigitalVideoEditing.com has posted its third Mac vs. PC comparison, dealing with performance in After Effects and Photoshop, graphics applications one might expect the Mac to be significantly faster in. It should be noted that the author, Charlie White, is a long-time PC supporter and disliker of Macs, though, as he shows, this preference is for as legitimate reasons as the ones devoted Mac users cite to disparage PC's. Ace's Hardware has another comparison that goes further in depth into the specifics of the G4, P4 and Athlon processors. As when comparing any two pieces of hardware, it's important to think not only of the relationship between performance and specification, but performance and price."

Comments

windows editing is not "crap"

[Anonymous Coward]

well, what software is crap? premiere? avid dv xpress? vegas video? they are all crap huh? no, they are not. and osx is based on unix, it is not unix. it does not blow windows "out of the water" performance wise. and it still has lots of problems. now that they are actually releasing programs that work in 10 and 10.2, that is. i use macs all the time, and they have just as many problems as any pc i have ever used. most problems are user caused. there are a host of other compositing and editing tools for windows that are definitely not crap.

anyways, if you make crappy movies with a cheap editor you'll make crappy movies with the best editor. there is a thing called talent that doesn't come included on a mac even though most people seem to think so.

The "I saved Christmas chick"

[smartin]

I just bought a video camera and picked up a firewire cable to hook it to my iBook. As I connected it I thought about the girl on the switch commercial talking about how her dad was spending Christmas day downloading drivers trying to get his video camera to work under windoze and how she just plugged it into her mac and was away to the races. So I'm thinking as I plug the cable into the camera and into the iBook, "this better just work". It did, i fired up iMovie and and could access the camera, downloaded a clip edited it and created a .mov file in less than 20 minutes. I'd switch, except i already did :).