Posted by Smarty on 01/18/08 13:19

I too have been surprised and disappointed with the relatively slow speed of
video editing with the Mac versus a PC, having also owned and used 3
MacPros, most recently the 8 core. For whatever reason, the video editing on
the Mac is just a slow and ponderous activity, mostly when it comes to
rendering. At first I suspected that the speed difference could be traced to
higher quality rendering, but a lot of tests and comparisons of rendered
output demonstrated no apparent gain in quality for the Mac when rendering
the final output, even though the rendering time was much longer. The Mac
video editing apps are full of great features, and I totally understand the
allure of the Tiger / Leopard as eye candy, but I always return to a PC to
do video work despite having MacPros available most of the time. Just my 2
cents.....

Smarty

"nappy" <n@n.n> wrote in message
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> "Ma3rk" <m3dwhitney@att.net> wrote in message
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> I'm very impressed with all
>> the new hardware, but to be honest, the more I use the Mac OS, the more I
>> like XP.
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> Agreed. I have dual boot Intel Mac Pro 8 core machien swith Premiere CS3
> and FCP on the same machine. I regret the rare occasions I have to use FCP
> and OSX. Slower than XP by a wide margin. Finally we CAN compare the two
> OS's on the same machine.
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