[geeks] Recommendations?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:16:35AM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> 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.

I have seen Apples give an amazing amount of trouble with video editing.
A friend of mine had no end of trouble with his B&W G3 machine.  It had
SCSI, a DC30, an AudioMedia III, and was only running Protools and Premiere.

Despite the DC30, most work was via firewire, with the DC30 mainly used to
drive the monitor and output to tape.  

Anyway, the machine crashed and glitched all over the place.  I have no idea
why.  It was at it's worst when capture or printing firewire video.  Most 
people who saw it said their machines didn't behave that badly.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd