Quote: Godot Taxis @ January 5, 2008, 5:29 PMJames, do yourself a favour and get yourself a mac - even if it's only a 2nd hand one or a mac mini. It will save you a lot of time and effort trying to get things to work and imovie and idvd are more than sophisticated enough to get stuff on the net or to producers.
Cheers Godot.
Guess I'll be putting one on my Christmas list for next year!
Yeah, but a Mac's ... Well it's a Mac. *shudder*
Quote: Aaron @ January 5, 2008, 6:39 PMYeah, but a Mac's ... Well it's a Mac. *shudder*
*shudder*
Don't do that save your money... and time.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ January 4, 2008, 2:37 PMOh really? It's the standard in the industry for video capture. The reason some pc manufacturers leave it off is because they have to pay to license it.
USB 1.0 wasn't as good as Firewire... they introduced USB 2.0 (still not quite as good) which just proved more popular because it was an easier interface to use, firewire only has between 20% - 30% (sometimes) faster transfer rates which isn't a great deal when you think about it (but proves popular for video transferring ect ect.)
And Godot licences have to be paid for nearly everything in a computer it's a classic VHS - Beta Max situation... that and other companies didn't create an appropriate chipset to accompany firewire ports so they don't prove as popular. I could go on but I've already geeked up the forum enough for one year.
The real reason FireWire is so dominant in 'the industry' is that it was made and developed by Apple. At the expense of USB support. And since video editing software has traditionally been pretty Mac-centric, the two made an understandable connection (ho ho ho).
And that it was around before USB...
So it was. Getting my years mixed up on that one. As I understand it though, Mac's support of USB was lacking to say the least, until very recently.
Anyway, point is, Apple have been dominant in that field, hence FireWire's status within the associated hardware. Thing. Not necessarily because FireWire is any better or worse.
Yeah... Thingy.
Firewire is meant to be better but still a close race... If you need help with computers Aaron I'm here 
And yes... Thingy
Quote: Paul W @ January 6, 2008, 8:40 PMIf you need help with computers Aaron I'm here
I'm fine thanks. 
Macs are used to edit stuff professionally, normally running Final Cut Pro (which I can use like nobody's business)
Macs are rubbish for anything else though I think.
Real pros use Avid. Which, I am informed, runs better on a Windows PC than a Mac.
Quote: Seefacts @ January 6, 2008, 8:56 PMMacs are rubbish for anything else though I think.
Worse than rubbish!
Quote: Aaron @ January 6, 2008, 9:09 PMReal pros use Avid. Which, I am informed, runs better on a Windows PC than a Mac.
Avid AND Final Cut - both are industry standards.
Quote: Aaron @ January 6, 2008, 9:09 PMReal pros use Avid. Which, I am informed, runs better on a Windows PC than a Mac.
Avid is good...I have a copy (from when I worked for them) and it rocks! Thinking about selling it though... hmmmmmmmmmm
Quote: Seefacts @ January 6, 2008, 9:11 PMAvid AND Final Cut - both are industry standards.
FCP is the more 'cut price' of the two, for lack of a better phrase, though.
Never Liked Final Cut, used to run one on those awful fancy toaster G4's and it crashed constantly. Mac's are only really industry standard coz they used to be more stable and handle that kind of process better, then the luvvies latched on and basically kept Mac afloat, but Windows XP is pretty stable and I do all my editing on it and I will never use a Mac again.