Mac or PC for Premiere CS5? at DVinfo.net

Greg Clark · July 26th, 2010, 10:18 AM

I love Premiere which will run on a PC or a Mac BUT I have always used a PC for editing.
I was going to stick with a new i7 PC computer but is this the right choice??
I don't want to start a PC\MAC war but desperately need some reasoned advice. Thanks.

Harm Millaard · July 26th, 2010, 10:33 AM

Just a couple of observations:

1. MAC's are beautifully engineered
2. They look good
3. They work out of the box
4. They are very expensive
5. They offer very limited expansion capability
6. OS-X sucks with multi-threading
7. They offer far less forum support

Greg Clark · July 27th, 2010, 07:40 AM

Any other opinions from those that work with both PC and Mac and Premiere?

Bill Sepaniak · July 27th, 2010, 07:56 AM

If you are willing to build your own machine (and are somewhat adventureous) you really don't have to choose. You can have both OS on a dual boot machine. That is what I did. SL and Windows 7 Pro can live happily in the same box. I am running FCP on the MAC side and Premiere Pro CS5 on the Windows side.

Tim Kolb · July 27th, 2010, 11:04 AM

I've worked with CS5 on both, though I run Windows 7.

I found the Mac to be just fine, I don't know what the difference would be other than the display card options are a bit narrower and the media "structure" on the Mac is limited to only QT...so I do know that some types of AVIs do not load on Mac, whereas when you put QT on your windows machine, you have the filetypes supported by QT and Windows available...

I don't know how to really delineate them very much now that they are nearly the same machine... I guess it's OS preference.

Ryan Koo · July 28th, 2010, 11:04 PM

Bill, are you using a nVidia card for acceleration in both OSes? Would be great to see a benchmark of the software on identical hardware.

Andrew Clark · July 29th, 2010, 02:19 AM

Probably less expensive for you to go the "Hackintosh" route as Bill mentioned. You can have the best of both worlds and have better expansion capabilities than with a MacPro.

MacPro's, no doubt, are probably the best looking and built computers out there; but conversely also have more limitations than a Windows based machine.

Bill Sepaniak · July 29th, 2010, 06:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ryan Koo

Bill, are you using a nVidia card for acceleration in both OSes?

Yes. A GTX 285. Works just fine.

July 26th, 2010, 10:18 AM	#1
Greg Clark Major Player Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Surprise Arizona Posts: 297	Mac or PC for Premiere CS5? I love Premiere which will run on a PC or a Mac BUT I have always used a PC for editing. I was going to stick with a new i7 PC computer but is this the right choice?? I don't want to start a PC\MAC war but desperately need some reasoned advice. Thanks.

July 27th, 2010, 07:40 AM	#3
Greg Clark Major Player Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Surprise Arizona Posts: 297	Excellent Comments Harmm Any other opinions from those that work with both PC and Mac and Premiere?

July 27th, 2010, 11:04 AM	#5
Tim Kolb Major Player Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Neenah, WI Posts: 547	I've worked with CS5 on both, though I run Windows 7. I found the Mac to be just fine, I don't know what the difference would be other than the display card options are a bit narrower and the media "structure" on the Mac is limited to only QT...so I do know that some types of AVIs do not load on Mac, whereas when you put QT on your windows machine, you have the filetypes supported by QT and Windows available... I don't know how to really delineate them very much now that they are nearly the same machine... I guess it's OS preference. __________________ TimK Kolb Productions

July 26th, 2010, 10:33 AM	#2
Harm Millaard Trustee Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands Posts: 1,832	Just a couple of observations: 1. MAC's are beautifully engineered 2. They look good 3. They work out of the box 4. They are very expensive 5. They offer very limited expansion capability 6. OS-X sucks with multi-threading 7. They offer far less forum support

July 27th, 2010, 07:56 AM	#4
Bill Sepaniak Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 62	If you are willing to build your own machine (and are somewhat adventureous) you really don't have to choose. You can have both OS on a dual boot machine. That is what I did. SL and Windows 7 Pro can live happily in the same box. I am running FCP on the MAC side and Premiere Pro CS5 on the Windows side.

July 28th, 2010, 11:04 PM	#6
Ryan Koo Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: New York, NY Posts: 92	Bill, are you using a nVidia card for acceleration in both OSes? Would be great to see a benchmark of the software on identical hardware.

July 29th, 2010, 02:19 AM	#7
Andrew Clark Major Player Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Bay Area, CA Posts: 477	Probably less expensive for you to go the "Hackintosh" route as Bill mentioned. You can have the best of both worlds and have better expansion capabilities than with a MacPro. MacPro's, no doubt, are probably the best looking and built computers out there; but conversely also have more limitations than a Windows based machine.