Posted by Luis Ortega on 04/22/07 12:55

"Laurence Payne" <lpayne1NOSPAM@dslDOTpipexDOTcom> wrote in message
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> Only you can judge feature sets. But do I detect an underlying desire
> to believe that Macs MUST somehow be better? A longtime PC user
> dreaming of another country where grass is greener?

Actually, I am not dreaming of greener grasses since I am a quite happy PC
user and don't have stability or performance issues with my setup.
My art lab will have a mix of Premiere Pro 1 PCs and FCP 4.5 Mac G5s next
year and I really need to be able to help the kids on both platforms, which
is why I am considering getting a Mac Pro for home.
I am really very torn at this stage because going to a Mac is going to cost
me more than upgrading my current setup and I could probably get a loan of a
small laptop from school to practice my FCP skills on. But I figure that
trying to run FCP 4.5 studio on a weak laptop will be an problematic
experience
I am personally impressed by FCP, and would like to use it myself, but I was
just looking through the features of Premiere Pro CS3 to find out if I could
answer my original question about it being optimized for quad core or even
core duo and the upcoming features on Premiere CS3 are also very impressive.
On Location allows me to do stop-motion animation from the camcorder right
into the hard drive which is a big plus for me. On Location is not
available for the Mac version of Premiere Pro CS3.
On the Mac side, I am very tempted by getting the best of both worlds if I
can run Windows programs natively and also have access to FCP Studio 2.
The Mac platform worries me a bit because I don't really know it, and when
you read the Apple user group forum on the Mac Pro you hear some weird
horror stories, from lots of freeze-ups to Mac Pros having a foul smell from
a faulty PSU- and this is from Mac true believers! The general feel I get
from reading that user group is that Macs are very finicky about some
hardware and software combinations and that the FCP software tends to freeze
up. Of course, I realize that user groups are full of people with problems
and for those that have everything working fine, which is hopefully the
majority, you don't hear their stories very much.
Sometimes choice is a real pain in the ass, especially when the choices are
so close.
Thanks for your advice.

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