[geeks] Recommendations?

[Bill Bradford]

On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 03:11:02AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   Crash.  Lose work.  Get pissed off.  Throw PeeCee into dumpster.  Buy
> an SGI.  Compute happily forever after with unobtrusive tools that
> Just Work.  (Except MipsPro C, that is...)

I thought the same tonight while doing movie editing on the Mac.  Friend of
mine shot a movie here in Austin back in December.  He's given me the
"Video Assist" tapes (e.g., the director's viewing feed from the "big"
camera(s), recorded to DV deck), and I'm converting them to Quicktime.

Plug in dual-deck VCR to Mac.  Fire up iMovie.  Hit play.  Click import.
"cut!" click stop-import.  DONE.

IT JUST WORKS.  PERIOD.  None of this screwing-around-with-Firewire-card
and PC-software junk.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX