Hey all,

Got something for you...

http://www.mindfreeproductions.com/test/mac.wmv

Play nice now... this is purely for entertainment and I nor anyone associated with me shares this persons views, at least out in public.

Zac

Ps. I had nothing to do with the production of it.

PPs. It seems ironically enough to have problems running on a mac unless you have the latest WM codecs installed.

hah! thanks for the post, that was hilarious - whether you own a PC of Mac you can't help but sympathize with the guy ...

by the way it ran perfectly on Windows XP ;-p

Thank you Zac, you made my morning! I know exactly how he feels, cause "Mac killed my inner child", too. That was so funny, I had to watch it a second time... I was laughing so hard, I didn't catch all of it the first time! Tears are still streaming down my face!

My fav part is still about the DOCK, it is so true it seems cruel.

Zac

AAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!

I'm sending this to all my Mac using friends!

Btw a true story mirrored in this little video sort of.

A kid at uni the other day in the same masters program as I, got so upset with one of the macs there, which incidently lost everything he had been working on including corrupting his entire external drive, he picked up a brand new g4 tower and threw down the hall, then pick it up again and rammed into a giant carbourd crusher...then turned it on while smoking a cig inside.

Lets just say we all cheered then promptly saw the police come and later on he retrieved his things never to return. Poor guy, he was so stressed out, he was on the brink of failing and being deported and i think it just got too much.

I think a mac killed his entire Australian future.

We should start a special group called, damn the mac! heh heh j/k. But the pc's in the editing labs seem a lot more in use now....

Zac

During my Graphics course, we were instructed on Macs, which are supposed to be the industry standard. While creating a 60 second 3D animation, this G3 would take 6 hours to render a 10 second clip. 6 HOURS! Of course, 5 seconds from completing the render, the Mac would crash, losing everything. After a week of this, I only had a couple days to finish the assignment, with next to nothing to show for my time.

So, being the resourceful type, I took the stuff home, and finished the assignment in 2 days. After that, if I had anything important to do, I did it at home on the 2 year old piece of crap PC. It was more reliable than even the new G4s we were getting in.

Macs are certainly not the industry standard when it comes to 3D. Only recently were they able to get Maya on the Mac. Before that, what was there. Only Lightwave. Lightwave is good, mind you. But it's hard to call that platform the industry standard when it didn't have 3DS Max, Maya (before that Alias PowerAnimator) and Softimage. I started out doing 3D on the Mac using something called Infini-D. It was all right.

Infini D is exactly what we used, and I still do. It isn't as heavy as Maya or Lightwave, but the curve is much easier to handle. It was used to do some movie work, and a few TV shows.

I haven't checked out Infini-D in a while, not since I stopped using Macs for work. You use the package that gets the job done. It's interesting how the higher end packages are coming out with lower end packages with more refined toolsets because they find that their bottom end is being taken out by the less-expensive products.

It's like this Keith... I like Premiere, because it makes sense to me. I use Infini D for the same reason. They may be kind of bug ridden, but they do work. The learning curve is much easier, even though the end result isn't as good as the higher end software.

This does not mean that you can't achieve amazing results. It just means you have to learn to live with the occasional crash, and learn how to cheat :)

HAHA that was great.

To bad it is encoded with WMP 9. Macs cannot view the video, only plays audio. But it sound pretty funny. Maybe someone can encode with a different codec ( .MOV,.MPG ) so the mac users like myself can enjoy the authors creativity.

kind of ironic that this clip doesn't work on a Mac.

I encoded it to quicktime

http://www.fusionarena.com/mac.mov

Ironic yes, But very funny. Thanks for encoding it in a format that the Mac can see. The mighty blue Apple has allowed me to trick it into letting me post this reply.

That was too funny! lol!

"Check it out all you Mac lovers"

I know and work with a few people like this.

They shouldn't be allowed near anything with moving parts lest they lose fingers or put an eye out.

One person couldn't figure out why it wouldn't start. And, no kidding, it was discovered that the iMac wasn't plugged in. Aaaaaargh!

Dean Sensui
Base Two Productions

HILARIOUS!!!

I can't see myself editing on anything else than a Mac, but I can sympathize with what that guy's gotta say!

Very Funny.

It must have been luck. My Mac. dos not fight back. No real issues other than a sneaky uppercut to bring out the spinning beach ball of death.

His point about having to unplug the Mac when it hangs is very true...at least from my experience with iMac and Cube. There's no way that power button's gonna work then.

At least when my PC hangs (rarely) the power button does its job.

I got one leg in both camps, meaning that I use both PC´s and an iMac. I have been a PC-user since the 80´s and have only been a Mac-user for about a year now. I think I am pretty good with PC´s and know them quit well. Through the years I have done a lot with PC´s and even built several.

Before my PC period started I used a lot of different computers (Oric, Commodore, Atari and others), my time with Atari made me look a lot at the Apple machines because I thought they had a lot in common at that point. But even though I found Apples machines and software attractive I stayed as a PC-user only, until last year. It had to do partly with their prices, partly with the kind of monopoly situation they had, and the fact that PC´s soon became the major player with Microsoft's OS´s.

Anyway, my struggle the last years building a stable PC-system for video editing, gave me a lot of grey hairs. The only system I found pretty useful and stable, was when I decided to build one dedicated for editing. Even then I had some problems regularly. I do understand that a PC with the necessary equipment are made by many different manufacturers, and that it can be a challenge to make it all work perfect together with the hardware, OS and software.

But this fact also made me look into the Mac threads in this community, to see what kind of experience they had with these problems. To me, they seemed to be more happy with their choices. I then decided that I wanted one Mac for my editing, and I purchased an iMac. Even though I still am a PC user I have not regretted my decision for a moment. Apple certainly do make fine machines and excellent software, and I early had to admit to myself that it was easy and fun using my iMac.

I do agree with the point about having to unplug the Mac when it hangs, but so what? Since I started using my Mac, about a year ago, it have hanged only ONCE! I love working with my PC´s but unfortunately they do play me a lot more tricks. Thats the reason why I have learned to love my Mac even more. I have purchased a lot of software through this year. Even though I have installed them all on my iMac and used them a lot, they have caused no problems at all to my editing programs FCP and DVD Studio Pro.

My conclusion:
I found the video funny, and that was just because it really was funny. But, please all you Mac and PC folks out there, be honest to yourselves and admit that probably is the PC and Mac worlds both great places to be. Probably would both Mac and PC folks could have told us stories about their struggle to make their editing machines work as they would like them to. In the end, all that matters must be that we are satisfied with the solution we have choosed. I will take the opportunity to give you all a little advice. Keep on having fun and make jokes, but keep it there. Stop the arguing about which is the best, and show each other more respect.

Best regards
One who have been lucky enough to play in both worlds.
Ivan