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Posted by doc on 05/21/06 22:06
as for us, we didn't move back to PC at all. we were linear editing and
depended on people like yourself to steer us in the direction to GO non
linear editing, and even went so far as told guys like you all to spec the
system out that will make it work for us. their words exactly were this,
"this is a proprietary system that will guarntee that it will work because
it is all compatible with each other because it is a SINGLE SOURCE
responsibility matter" apple/mac. however, it only resulted in single
source trouble with little avenue or streets for fixes. the latter which
really showed us what a small box we had gotten ourselves into.
from this we couldn't go back to pc. we didn't have a pc editor formerly we
had only the apple/mac or go back to linear tape. when the guys wouldn't
use the NLE even after bucco training $$$ i progressively sold the tape gear
to make them use it. what a mistake. for the first time in a four year
growth cycle my company turned a loss for SIX MONTHS because of continual
failures, crashes, and long edit times (partly from long renders in FCP) and
until we turned to PC's (not back but TOO) we nearly died. i could have
held out for maybe two more months before i would have had to cut my
business.
since switching (not back to, but to) windows PC's and avid we are back on
course and in just 8 months are back on the 15-45 degree upward climb again,
just picked up six months later. in other words, we LOST six months of
growth due to our apple/mac solution, but we got it back when we went to
pc's and avid. btw, our training was limited to ONE DVD that cost under
$100 by a 3rd party instead of $$$ for the apple/mac solution.
drd
"Mr. Tapeguy" <mr.tapeguy@pro-tape.com> wrote in message
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>
>> I would hardly consider a move to Apple an upgrade. Don't get too anxious
>> here..
>> There is no way in hell I would ever actually BUY another Apple. If a
>> dual
>> 1GHz mac is not powerful enough to edit (ie.. it had a damn hard time
>> doing
>> the job a single 1Ghz PC did flawlessly) then my Dual Xeon machines will
>> work just dandy.. as they do now.
>>
>> Hell, one job I had which FCP crapped out on was finished on a VAIO
>> laptop.
>>
>> In fact, I trust that Specs will come back with his take on this stuff
>> after
>> a while. I am interested in that.
>
> If you traded in a 1.0 G4, which barely meets the minimum specs for
> FCS, for a current dual 2.0 or better (a Quad would of course be best)
> and brought up your software to the latest versions, that would be an
> upgrade to your current setup.
>
> I really think you and Doc both got lemons. If my experience had been
> the same I might be just as annoyed as you are. I am certain, however,
> that those experiences are not the norm.
>
> My family has owned half a dozen Saabs because we all love the way they
> drive. The first or second one we got had so many problems with the
> flywheel and a couple of other issues that we actually had to pursue it
> in court as Texas has a lemon law. Every other one of them has had no
> significant issues. I have no doubt they have more issues than most
> Chevys but the one bad car was obviously not indicative of the whole
> line.
>
> Of course, your Apple setups were in place as your way of earning a
> living and you only had one and apparently didn't like ANYTHING about
> the usability so I can understand why moving back to PC and staying
> there would be preferable.
>
> Likewise I got a 5300 laptop years ago which repeatedly had problems
> with the wafer-think power-supply connection and had to have the entire
> motherboard replaced twice because of poor design. Overall, our 3
> offices ran on Mac for years and I've had more problems with the PC's
> we use for UPS and a couple of other functions than all the Macs, which
> outnumber the PC's by about 6 or 7 to one. Of course subjectively I
> also prefer the user interface and I was reading a thread the other day
> about an Windows system lacking a driver for a monitor and I'm thinking
> "what the $*%#?" but yeah, I would have been somewhat inclined ot stay
> with Mac anyway. I never had a compelling reason to switch other than
> availability of POS software, which is now mostly net-based anyway.
>
> I do understand, really, and I'll also be curious to what Specs has to
> say. I am always MOST interested in what Windows users have to offer,
> such as what the Windows Supersite had to say about Tiger. Like you
> they are clearly not fans of some of Apple's past pricing and marketing
> but had a lot of good things to say about the OS.
>
> Craig
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