Do i HAVE to get a MAC

[Keith Alan Morris]

build your own mac! save on RAM.

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3250

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

And they think two mouse buttons are too many.

Hehe... The Apple Mighty Mouse has 4 buttons plus a "scroll ball" which can be clicked as a 5th button and rolled like a miniature trackball for scrolling horizontally or vertically. I am completely unaware of any non-Apple mouse that has this little feature. Unfortunately, outside of the little scroll-ball, I personally hate the Mighty Mouse and prefer my Logitech laser mouse. The new low-profile Apple keyboards that came out earlier this week are pretty sweet though.

 

[Rocco Schult]

For those of you who may be adding a Mac into your toolkit, I highly recommend "Double Command", which is shareware app that allows for re-mapping of the keyboard...For example, it helps if you are used to the Windows Copy/Paste method (which uses the control key, rather than the Mac's command Key)...

Fair enough, use a tool if you are used to a PC and don't like to fiddle with its differences. I have to switch between Macs and PCs everyday and prefer learning the differences and then I can use every Mac or PC out there. Its a different tool with different behaviour.

It took them 20 years to admit that having a 2 button mouse..As far as a 2 button track pad, there is an option now for a 2 finger "tap" for right mouse button, that helps when you can get it to work right..

Well, 20 years ago they had a mouse and a GUI at least :usd:

 

[Rocco Schult]

I don't think the camera automatically generates a QT wrapper. It has to be passed though a (quick but off-camera) program called REDquick first.

I am guessing that both the camera and Redquick can generate the proxy files. (They announced/mentioned Redquick after; I don't think the original camera proxies will be replaced by Redquick.)...Maybe in the future you could even specify if you want timecode overlays/burns or not.

Either way, "built-in" or outside the machine, it goes pretty fast. Its a hop and pop. Only a wrapper and thus an interpreter, in no way a proxy. Its like a QT reference file. The proxy is actually rendered on the fly. One of the advantages of wavelet.

 

[Casey Green]

Well, 20 years ago they had a mouse and a GUI at least :usd:

yep - as did the Commodore Amiga.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Yeah, that's a really good point. It also has better Blu-ray support - right now, anyway - which is important to me, because there's really no other way to get your HD content into consumer hands. 40GB files aren't too reasonable for mass downloading.

You can author HD-DVD on both Mac and PC with Adobe and on Mac/FCS. So Blu-Ray isn't the only option. HD-DVD writers are only available from Toshiba commercial products division right now, but H.264 and VC-1 can be encoded to standard DVD media as HD-DVD and still allow for 20 minutes or so of 1080p24 HD playback. HD-DVD menus can be created in XML, which is nice. OTOH, Blu-Ray can be created the same way, but without the BD author tools, your out of luck doing BD Java menus. You can however use standard DVD style menus and then link HD content to them and such discs are allowed in both the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD format specs.

Due to studio divisions, more studios jumping on the "both formats" bandwagon and more "universal format" players about to hit the market soon, I don't see either format going away. In the end, either format is going to be fine (IMO) as players will digest both -- give it another 12 to 18 months. LG's next generation universal player is set to launch next month for $699, which is a major upgrade to their current $999 model. 5 years from now, I think most discs will be Blu-Ray, especially those authored in desktop burners. BD media is the superior data and end user authoring format, this is where it will win the market. Not in movie or player sales because right now both formats are dead even in that respect. Blu-Ray has more players out there due to PS3, but the PS3 crowd isn't exactly buying tons of HD movies, most are still content with DVD since the movies are $10 cheaper that way.

 

[Morning Glory]

You guys still suffering with a mouse?

You guys still suffering with a mouse?

Kensington Trackball, way more ergonomic, efficient, and elegant (and requires less space) than a mouse, IMHO. and my wrist doesn't hurt no more. Or course, according to some, a track pad is THE most ergonomic, but there's something quite a bit more fun about spinning a big ball around. And for my more fiddly Photoshop, Wacom is quite fabulous. I feel like a mouse is a conceptual comprosmise between a drawing tablet and a trackball ( okay, I know the mouse came first, but I mean on the Platonic Ideal level of existence, you know, where the Red team get's all there ideas from)

 

[Rudi Herbert]

PC will do just fine

PC will do just fine

My two rupies...

Apple IS a great company, but saying that only Apple software and apps will generate "professional" results is as elitist, wrong anf misinformed as saying that only film or an F-23 or a Viper are capable of worthy cinema images. Which the product responsible for the creation of this forum has thoroughly shattered as a notion. I love Premiere, done good and great things with it (and some bad ones too, though completely my fault) and love its integration with AE and Photoshop, two of the truly STANDARD programs in image manipulation, without argument. Editing is about refining the story you're telling for impact, and as such, the effect you'll use 95% of the time is the ubiquitous cut, which any system can do. The rest is gravy. Much more important is whether your editing app is resolution independent and allows you to keep your ingested images at the same quality as they came in. Adobe does that, and if you keep your PC running smart and clean, no MAC is truly more stable or better. Don't get me wrong, I love MACS, but having to buy one and learn a new interface on account of RED would be counterproductive. RED as an acquisition tool should provide the best possible images for either platform, so we choose which way to go from there on...

Rudi Herbert

 

[Robert P. Hogue]

I will resist Mac with all my strength. What's the point in buying a $10,000 editing computer if I can't play video games on it?

Just install windows on your mac with Bootcamp, and it will do everything your garden variety windows box does. And it will run all your games, as well as all your windows programs at full speed.

 

[laguun]

Just install windows on your mac with Bootcamp, and it will do everything your garden variety windows box does. And it will run all your games, as well as all your windows programs at full speed.

sadly not.

it won´t run the typical high-end applications of today, as discreet smoke , lustre or flame, avid ds nitris, northlight, any quantel application, assimilate scratch, dvs clipster etc on other pcs from hp/compaq/ibm/custom built do.

 

[Lucas Wilson]

sadly not.

it won´t run the typical high-end applications of today, as discreet smoke , lustre or flame, avid ds nitris, northlight, any quantel application, assimilate scratch, dvs clipster etc on other pcs from hp/compaq/ibm/custom built do.

Actually... I am running SCRATCH just fine on a Mac Tower with Bootcamp...

: )

For any and all SCRATCH customers out there reading this - this is NOT a cert'ed config. We are testing it, though...

Lucas
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ASSIMILATE, Inc.
LA, CA, USA

 

[Brook Willard]

Heheh, busted.

 

[GlennChan]

therock: Thanks for the correction... it is not exactly a proxy. I'm not sure if there is a better term for it? Maybe it would make more sense to call it a 2k/1k/0.5k reference file??

 

[Tom Lowe]

Just install windows on your mac with Bootcamp, and it will do everything your garden variety windows box does. And it will run all your games, as well as all your windows programs at full speed.

Or I could just buy a PC. :tongue:

 

[Poi Boy]

And play lots of games ! kill all kinds of stuff ! LOL
-A

 

[Rodrigo Lizana]

That's funny... I'm still trying to figure out how to do something as simple as delete a file on my Mac!

Right button on the mighty mouse and select move to trash.

 

[Nook Kim]

One other change I use all the time is remapping the forward slash key to be a delete key, since the Mac Book Pro doesn't have one (!). I know you can shift-backspace, but who wants to have 2 key strokes for delete when typing any text document? Not me.

Hi Casey,
I have a MacBook Pro, and I believe you HAVE the delete key. You just don't
have the backspace key. On a MacBook Pro, your delete key does two tasks,
deleting and backspacing. Therefore, you can actually backspace by hitting
your delete key in the text editor of your choice. But to delete a file, you need
to hold down the command key.

As far as a 2 button track pad, there is an option now for a 2 finger "tap" for right mouse button, that helps when you can get it to work right, and also other 3rd party utilities for mapping areas of the track pad, but the Mac Book Pro's single button just is wasted at being that size with only one function.

But I like how I can scroll vertically AND horizontally with my two fingers, don't you?

By the way, it took only about five month until I found myself not wanting
to turn on my PC, which served me more than 15 years, again.

You all know that I'm not saying Mac's better, right? I'm just saying.

 

[Casey Green]

Hi Casey,
I have a MacBook Pro, and I believe you HAVE the delete key. You just don't
have the backspace key. On a MacBook Pro, your delete key does two tasks,
deleting and backspacing. Therefore, you can actually backspace by hitting
your delete key in the text editor of your choice. But to delete a file, you need
to hold down the command key.



But I like how I can scroll vertically AND horizontally with my two fingers, don't you?

By the way, it took only about five month until I found myself not wanting
to turn on my PC, which served me more than 15 years, again.

You all know that I'm not saying Mac's better, right? I'm just saying.

I probably mistyped it... but thats what I meant. The Mac Book Pro has a delete key (which acts as a backspace), but not a backspace key. so you can't delete (forward) as you would on a PC in one keystroke without the added 3rd party remap. still don't know why they did that when their other keyboards have the backspace.

As for the 2 finger scrolling...I was so used to most PC laptops having that feature using the separate area to the right and below the trackpad for this function... it was nice to see apple add that - a good solution...

 

[Noah Kadner]

Umm- this is getting OT ain't it? Perhaps a move to another forum?

-Noah

 

[Poi Boy]

not only ot but the same boring re hash. It should have stayed closed.
-A