About time someone did this! Ditto to the other post about huge speedups when getting rid of old 4400 Powerbook drives.
With more and more people doing video editing and compression (Final Cut, iMovie) and audio stuff (Logic, GarageBand)... it's very valuable to do this stuff on the go. It's not just gaming that sucks up resources.
So kudos to SR for putting this together, and it would be nice for Apple to provide speedier config options for its customers.
The reason that good musicians can still make a living even when they don't get review space is that they don't rely on centralized distribution for their art. (Yes, record companies are huge and powerful, but you can make and release your own CD's now.)
Admittedly I'm not a film professional in any sense, but I've never understood why filmmakers haven't learned from rock/folk/whatever musicians. Why not tour a film instead of opening it everywhere at once (meaning nowhere if you're an indie film, as you can't get metroplex space anymore.) Take over a nightclub, an auditorium, put flyers up around town, target your market directly. Dupe your own DVDs and sell them online and at the show. It's not Sundance but it's the way a lot of musicians make a living.
Didn't the makers of 60's surf films do something like this? Go straight to your audience, don't wait for big media to 'discover' you.
Feel free to call me naive, but I think someone with a great film is going to eventually figure this out and change the game in cinema.
Musicians can live without rave reviews in major publications, because they're always marketing their butts off. And more importantly they're getting constant feedback from their fans, something aspiring auteurs could probably learn from.
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...as they are unable to explain why using their new invention disables their other new invention, the prototype phaser weapon.
About time someone did this! Ditto to the other post about huge speedups when getting rid of old 4400 Powerbook drives.
With more and more people doing video editing and compression (Final Cut, iMovie) and audio stuff (Logic, GarageBand)... it's very valuable to do this stuff on the go. It's not just gaming that sucks up resources.
So kudos to SR for putting this together, and it would be nice for Apple to provide speedier config options for its customers.
The reason that good musicians can still make a living even when they don't get review space is that they don't rely on centralized distribution for their art. (Yes, record companies are huge and powerful, but you can make and release your own CD's now.) Admittedly I'm not a film professional in any sense, but I've never understood why filmmakers haven't learned from rock/folk/whatever musicians. Why not tour a film instead of opening it everywhere at once (meaning nowhere if you're an indie film, as you can't get metroplex space anymore.) Take over a nightclub, an auditorium, put flyers up around town, target your market directly. Dupe your own DVDs and sell them online and at the show. It's not Sundance but it's the way a lot of musicians make a living. Didn't the makers of 60's surf films do something like this? Go straight to your audience, don't wait for big media to 'discover' you. Feel free to call me naive, but I think someone with a great film is going to eventually figure this out and change the game in cinema. Musicians can live without rave reviews in major publications, because they're always marketing their butts off. And more importantly they're getting constant feedback from their fans, something aspiring auteurs could probably learn from.