Recreating the iDVD Theme "Revolution" in Blender 3D tutorial Part 1 of 5

[Andremedia]

Thanks for the 3d info and the image of "Revolution" - someone contacted me about authoring something similar. I'd like to report though that I'm editing HD and SD motion pictures and audio for broadcast delivery on PC. I do use the Mac (and enjoy it) when I need to deliver ProRes files but I get a lot more bang for the buck with the PC's.

[brokenjax]

@Andremedia

Yeah I love baiting the Mac vs PC debate hook to see if anyone bites. It's a great acid test to see how alive it still is. As you can tell from a previous post it's hasn't died. Oh BTW I think you can do ProRes on a PC. It's included with quicktime pro for PC for what $30? The adobe suite supports it as well, so really no need to go Mac. I think I'm more in love with the OS than their proprietary apps. In fact IMHO Final Cut Studio has fallen way behind. 2011 may be different.

[Andremedia]

@brokenjax Apple has protected it's brand by offering prores only in FCP 6 and beyond. QT pro does very nice H264 but that's where they draw the line. No prores output choices in Adobe CS.

[brokenjax]

@Andremedia Yep, I stand corrected. One of the engineers at work was laying off some HDCAM footage to a kipro box and said he could look at the ProRes files on his windows machine. I foolishly assumed then that Quicktime for windows could now encode to ProRes as well. Hopefully there will be some industry pressure to make ProRes codec more cross platform. Probably in tandem with the introduction of FCS 4.

[Andremedia]

@brokenjax I have the decode portion of Apple's prores codec on my PC's and it looks great. I think Cineform is better but of course encoding requires a purchase, but Cineform IS cross platform. I think Apple doesn't want to play on the field fairly and I'd go so far as suggest that they give "buggy" codec code out to make PC perform sluggishly with .mov files!

[coolcam262]

WOW!

[tzsjynx]

The Mac-for-Video argument died years and years ago.

They're all the same. With Mac you get sexier hardware with the same power for twice the money.

And truthfully, there are thousands of thousands of programs you cannot use on OSX - not just "Video Games." Try compiling programs and finding good CAD software.

Macs and PC are the same stuff - the only difference is when you say PC you usually mean Windows - so it's all about software.

[brokenjax]

"The Mac-for-Video argument died years ago"

Then why argue?

[HrafnNordhri]

When you want to get some work done, get Linux.

[cganim8or]

Do you have Mac OS?