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Re: [ARSCLIST] AV to DV - PC or Mac?
At 03:25 PM 6/18/2005 -0500, Scott Phillips wrote an excellent post and a
list of matters to be addressed - to which I add a precursor;
0. Define the work to be done by the system(s). Enumerate the jobs which
prompt you to buy/build/learn a system. Allocate those jobs in time and
space: now/immediate future/ultimately desirable; upgrade in place/add
components/replace the platform.
Forgive me if that sounds too simple to mention, but I know people who have
fallen into the trap of buying a system for non-linear editing because they
thought they might want it eventually - and all they needed today was word
processing and surfing the Internet. Of course, there was also the one who
was frustrated trying to run a high-end audio editor on a PII with 128 MB
of RAM and a single, correspondingly small and slow hard drive.
Once you know what you want to do, Scott's list is a fine one:
1.) Pick the software you want / need to run FIRST, before committing to
anything else.
2.) Which (or both?) platform will run everything you need to run ON AN
INDIVIDUAL WORKSTATION ?
...
Mike
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