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Apple's Motion Now Shipping
gz76 writes "Apple's high-performance motion graphic design and production application lets you explore new creative territory using self-propelled behavior animation, character-by-character title animation and a powerful new interface. Motion integrates seamlessly with Final Cut Pro HD and DVD Studio Pro 3, making it quicker and easier than ever to create motion graphics for film, video and DVDs. About time!"
i see what you mean and i really agree with you on many points.
nobody inferred that to "try out different configurations of machines" takes 20 hours a week, nor is it as big of a deal as many mac users make it. but the fact is that the PC as a platform for video/audio and print is endlessly customizable, in an era where machines can be upped in performance and capability easily why stick with the standard hardware offered by Apple? in my opinion it's not a productivity loss to upgrade your machine because it only comes around once or so a year and by upgrading you get more of a continual use out of your investment.
many mac users hold the idea that when Apple says "productivity!" "doesn't crash!" "it works!" "it's beautiful!" it is the paradigm of computing. but that is just a weird way of thinking to me. listen, i've used macs countless times before and i genuinely like them but what i try to get across is even though they are good machines they are essentially no better than a PC - or even slightly worse because a PC is more open.
what i am argueing is that it's not that great to get stuck in a rut about something. for example i am argueing something akin to this in relation to professional video editing: many people use Windows - some people use an alternative OS. Windows allows surface customization, with alternative OSs you can cuztomize anything you want and this subsequently could prove more versatile.
once again, I am not a mac hater, i use them at work but that doesn't mean you can't question the idea of a mac - i don't like how you can't mess around, i don't enjoy the fact that Apple just pretty much skips performance issues and hides behind advertising buzzwords. but i do respect the fact that it gets the job done for some people. since i can screw around with my on PCs all i want and increase their performance beyond that of a mac for video editing and print then i subsequently will like my PC more. but many mac users can't seem to get this point that there are alternatives to the 'industry standards' presented and that sometimes these alternatives may prove to be better than what is 'standard'
ie. it was brought up in this thread that WETA chose to use Shake on Linux rather than on the mac platform. why? because they could customize machines to do the job better.