FCP is definitely not the industry standard for professional video editing. That title is still held by Avid's Media Composer. Yes, the prosumer wannabe wedding video/Youtube editors running around with HDV cameras are using hacked copies of FCP, but anything with a real production budget is being cut on Avid Media Composer, the standard for professional editors.
Suspension? These criminals should be doing 5 years of jail and a fine of $250K each for their copyright infringements. They obviously didn't read the U.S. Copyright Law {Title 17 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq., Title 18 U.S.C. Section 2319} contract they signed when they opened up their CDs to import music into this little work of art. Burn them at the stake!
Oddly enough, he managed to miss the two best external enclosures out there, G-tech drives and Mercury Elite Pro by Other World Computing. LaCie's are industry standard in the Post Production world and I see them fail weekly. Not true for the G-tech drives and Mercury Elite Pro's. I'm guessing he didn't get paid to promote either one.
Apple still doesn't have a $500~$700 system available. A mac mini still doesn't include a monitor, keyboard, or mouse. I just bought a mac mini today, Feb. 9th 2007. It cost $901 excluding tax. Everyone knows you can't run a mac mini on 512MB of RAM (unless you're eternally running bootcamp with WinXP), so I had to upgrade it to 1GB for OSX 10.4.8. This was a new computer so I had to add the "$79" wired keyboard and mighty mouse combo (when was the last time you paid $79 for a "wired keyboard solution" on windows?). Add the $149 two year warranty extension (with a speedy 3 to 7 day repair time) and you're now at $901 with no software other than basic OSX. Add another $299 for a decent LCD monitor and you're now beginning to wonder why you didn't just buy a new iMac. But, heh, the best part about owning a Mac is upgrading it. When that special moment arrives, you just pick it up, throw it away, and buy a new one. They even include free recycling to rid you of any guilty conscience. It's nice to know that Apple doesn't make you pay for waste that's eventually going to end up in some third world country's environmental disaster.
But seriously, that whole thing about Mac's not crashing? For the last six months I've been echoing this to my mac users..."Just reboot...it's a Mac...of course it crashes. You can't seriously expect it to do any heavy lifting. It's not meant for that. Just watch at the PC vs Mac commercials. The PC does the heavy lifting like accounting etc...the Mac makes cool videos and pretty pictures". Mac wins the marketing campaign. M$ wins the performance battle.
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FCP is definitely not the industry standard for professional video editing. That title is still held by Avid's Media Composer. Yes, the prosumer wannabe wedding video/Youtube editors running around with HDV cameras are using hacked copies of FCP, but anything with a real production budget is being cut on Avid Media Composer, the standard for professional editors.
Suspension? These criminals should be doing 5 years of jail and a fine of $250K each for their copyright infringements. They obviously didn't read the U.S. Copyright Law {Title 17 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq., Title 18 U.S.C. Section 2319} contract they signed when they opened up their CDs to import music into this little work of art. Burn them at the stake!
Oddly enough, he managed to miss the two best external enclosures out there, G-tech drives and Mercury Elite Pro by Other World Computing. LaCie's are industry standard in the Post Production world and I see them fail weekly. Not true for the G-tech drives and Mercury Elite Pro's. I'm guessing he didn't get paid to promote either one.
Apple still doesn't have a $500~$700 system available. A mac mini still doesn't include a monitor, keyboard, or mouse. I just bought a mac mini today, Feb. 9th 2007. It cost $901 excluding tax. Everyone knows you can't run a mac mini on 512MB of RAM (unless you're eternally running bootcamp with WinXP), so I had to upgrade it to 1GB for OSX 10.4.8. This was a new computer so I had to add the "$79" wired keyboard and mighty mouse combo (when was the last time you paid $79 for a "wired keyboard solution" on windows?). Add the $149 two year warranty extension (with a speedy 3 to 7 day repair time) and you're now at $901 with no software other than basic OSX. Add another $299 for a decent LCD monitor and you're now beginning to wonder why you didn't just buy a new iMac. But, heh, the best part about owning a Mac is upgrading it. When that special moment arrives, you just pick it up, throw it away, and buy a new one. They even include free recycling to rid you of any guilty conscience. It's nice to know that Apple doesn't make you pay for waste that's eventually going to end up in some third world country's environmental disaster. But seriously, that whole thing about Mac's not crashing? For the last six months I've been echoing this to my mac users..."Just reboot...it's a Mac...of course it crashes. You can't seriously expect it to do any heavy lifting. It's not meant for that. Just watch at the PC vs Mac commercials. The PC does the heavy lifting like accounting etc...the Mac makes cool videos and pretty pictures". Mac wins the marketing campaign. M$ wins the performance battle.