comments on Final Cut Pro? - Page 2

irishmark · #11 (**permalink**) 02-20-2007, 09:51 AM

That would kind of defeat the purpose of buying a mac though. Macs when runnign windows appz slow right down. The beauty of a Mac is its speed and infastructure. They've worked hard at it.

I cant remember the website but a group of tech heads fot together and took two similarly specced machines, a mac and a pc. Both Dual CPU 3Ghz with 2GB Ram and identical disc setups.

They then created the same projects in After Effects and rendered them out. The Mac did it in a third of the time it took the PC.

Mac's are just better when running Mac software. It would be graet if Apple released a PC version of FCP but i think it wuld have major problems running on PC.

Maybe one day.....

Mark W · #12 (**permalink**) 02-20-2007, 07:50 PM

Sources? - I dont doubt your honesty, I just think you are mistaken...

Forgive my scepticism, but a mac is a pc now - they copied. As for the performance of boot camp, well the article I read compared to a similar pc.... best thing was the pc and the mac as pc ran p shop faster than mac as mac... haha.

Darn thing is I cant remember where I read it....

irishmark · #13 (**permalink**) 02-21-2007, 01:18 PM

I think the other proof is in the usage. While there are all sorts of statistics for which runs better and what not, when u sit in formt of a Mac and use it - its a whole diffrent ball game. I have the advantage of being both mac and PC literate so i am not slowed down by either but out of how they work day to day I'd use a mac hands down...if only i could bloody afford one.

Mark W · #14 (**permalink**) 02-22-2007, 01:26 PM

Aww - I admit it - I just hate all those mac adverts and all the lies they tell and ridiculous distortions. And steve j makes b gates look almost friendly and nice. All that lifestyle marketing and a one button mouse - arggh - must kill Macs - Macs evil.

dobbler77 · #15 (**permalink**) 02-22-2007, 03:22 PM

love FCP

irishmark · #16 (**permalink**) 02-22-2007, 10:28 PM

Originally Posted by Mark W

Aww - I admit it - I just hate all those mac adverts and all the lies they tell and ridiculous distortions. And steve j makes b gates look almost friendly and nice. All that lifestyle marketing and a one button mouse - arggh - must kill Macs - Macs evil.

LOL LIES I TELL THEE, LIES! i know what you mean. PC's have come along way since then but its their marketing campagin and there is a little truth to it. If i ever do get my mac I will no doubt keep my PC systems too. Gotta feel the Vegas love baby!

rinogautama · #17 (**permalink**) 02-23-2007, 11:32 AM

it dont matter mac or pc, if ure good editor ure good on using anything, we're so spoiled by softwares that can cut immediately rushes been digitized to HDD, remember back in the old days of non linear where they have to use 4 VTRS to perform an edit session (lucky i only experience this as an assistant editor)...

its the man behind the gun that pull the trigger...

irishmark · #18 (**permalink**) 02-23-2007, 05:20 PM

that goes without saying however when it comes to preference or professional trends FCP is the daddy

MOSH · #19 (**permalink**) 03-12-2007, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by Mark W

but a mac is a pc now - they copied. As for the performance of boot camp, well the article I read compared to a similar pc.... best thing was the pc and the mac as pc ran p shop faster than mac as mac... haha.

That's because P'shop currently runs through an emulator (rosetta) on the intel macs, because it's not been written for the dual core chipset. CS3 has been, so will fly on a mac once again.

Originally Posted by Mark W

...and a one button mouse...

Macs have had 4 buttons on their included mice for years now...

going back to the first quote... mac copied pc? Hmmm Vista anyone? not to mention apple beating microsoft in actually creating a GUI opperating system, and multitasking (took microsoft over ten years to catch up with that).

Anyway, a mac is a pc (and a much better one IMO) and before anyone moans at me, I also run windows and linux, the mac just beats them both hands down for anything creative and reliability.

Back to FCP.....

Originally Posted by cappa esquire

Hi Chris,
I personally use vegas due to the fact i like to be able to achieve my ideas fast and vegas is the type of program which will allow me to make things happen almost as fast as i can think of them, where as my experience with final cut pro leaves me pressing a million and 1 buttons to do something which would usually only take me 10 seconds for example adding a cross disolve, taking down each clips speed to 60% via a velocity envelope then fade out to black. That would litteraly take me less than 10 seconds in vegas but a good while longer in final cut pro.

If you know how to use FCP, you can achieve all this in litterally as little as 4 click and keystroke commands. It's the same with all NLE software, if you know how to use it you're well away. I've used Premiere, avid and *shuder* Pinnacle, all at pro level, and FCP is deffinatly the most user friendly, cappable, and reliable (possibly due to macs being more stabble) of the lot.

I've seen people brag about videos they've created using premiere and after effects, and not seen anything that you couldn't easily do in FCP on it's own.

10-bit reduces contours (banding of colour in a sunset for example), because it works with a greater range of colours.

That's it from me for now.... my 5p

irishmark · #20 (**permalink**) 03-12-2007, 02:11 PM

MARK W - meant to add - while from a hardware point of view Mac's are PC's you are correct but its a cae of Windows V's OS-X. There is no comparison really. Mac operating systems are simply superior.