Mac vs Vista 32/64-bit

[jnuts]

I just purchased a non vibrating 35mm adapter for the hv20. I'm going the cheap route.

 

[Dial_tone]

I would go with XP (SP3 coming soon) or XP 64. I've been holding out on XP64, though. I'm not sure if it would all be jiggy with my drivers. Next time I reinstall the os on this machine I'll probably set it up for dual boot. If I need linux, I just run the latest ubuntu distro inside a vmware vm.

I've gone back and forth on getting a mac or not - I'm still not ready to switch. My shit doesn't get virii, spyware or crash all the time - so I don't see the need.

+1. I use Ubuntu and run an XP in a vmware guest. Ubuntu does everything I need it to do. Video conversion takes a bit more tweaking but the free aspect more than makes up for it.

 

[jnuts]

I'd probably still be running linux as the main if they had a decent video editor. Unfortunately, they are there yet. Cinelerra sucks ass.

 

[Razorguns]

I just purchased a non vibrating 35mm adapter for the hv20. I'm going the cheap route.

link please! my brother may be interested. lotsa diy adapters, but what about f-stop loss and image flip?

im prolly gonna go brevis or red rock. not sure yet.

r

 

[Razorguns]

yeah i'm prolly just gonna grab an HP with 4 gigs (1 for vista, 3 for apps), core 2 quad 2.6ghz, nvidia with dvi/hdmi outputs, br writer, lightscribe dvd, and 750gbs.

It's not a mac, but with AspectHD making things easier - it'll hold me over until next year when I can splurge on a mac. Hopefully by then, i just can get real pros to do this shit, and allow me to concentrate on what's important.

Now: buy from hp.com, or best buy? I don't trust those craigslist do it yourselfers. Even if it saves me mucha money. Unless Dialtone builds me one!

r

 

[jnuts]

link please! my brother may be interested. lotsa diy adapters, but what about f-stop loss and image flip?

im prolly gonna go brevis or red rock. not sure yet.

r

This one:

http://hv20.com/showthread.php?t=2825
Image is flipped, and non achromat. Flipping image will cost you at least 1/2 to a full stop. I'm not sure how much light loss, but I don't suspect much. Sample videos on the page. Got in for under $200. I like the quality and the price point. If I end up liking it a lot, I'll upgrade to a higher end model.

Before this one, I was going towards the Brevis. Much better light than red rock.

 

[jnuts]

yeah i'm prolly just gonna grab an HP with 4 gigs (1 for vista, 3 for apps), core 2 quad 2.6ghz, nvidia with dvi/hdmi outputs, br writer, lightscribe dvd, and 750gbs.

It's not a mac, but with AspectHD making things easier - it'll hold me over until next year when I can splurge on a mac. Hopefully by then, i just can get real pros to do this shit, and allow me to concentrate on what's important.

Now: buy from hp.com, or best buy? I don't trust those craigslist do it yourselfers. Even if it saves me mucha money. Unless Dialtone builds me one!

r

I just built two machines from parts I got from newegg that were close to this spec - it came in at $400, only diffs were 320gig hd, and 3 gig of ram.

 

[digger]

No reason Parallels and Boot Camp couldn't coexist; I've heard (but haven't seen) a way they can even share the same image file(s). Also can't think of a reason Parallels wouldn't support ActiveX; maybe you're thinking DirectX? Yeah, you might not get bare-metal hardware acceleration for games, but how many high-end developer apps use the video card coprocessor?

 

[SaladFork]

Yeah but NONE of those apps by themselves would take up >3GB of space in an application space.

Imagine rendering a 1920x1080 HD scene with a small amount of fx, modelling, graphics, etc. Right now with 32-bit Vista, 3GB's - guess how long it takes?

8 HOURS.

I was in Beverly Hills today visiting a friend who does Visual FX at this post house on films. They all use macs. 16 GBs each on their workstations. Rendering for them, takes 25 minutes with Nuclear Pro Installed.

I mentioned 64-bit Vista and they all started laughing at me.

I felt so small. I felt like Perkele.

videocopilot.net - my friend Andrew Kramer. Visual FX god. Uses a MAC for all his amazing stuff.

I just don't like the Mac, but i may have no choice in this matter. Stability and memory is important to me.

I'm not gonna make my footage suffer cuz my o/s is too dinky to handle it.

r

I use a 64 bit Vista machine at work and am constanly kicking the box cause it's SOOOOOO fucking slow... Several times I have had to leave work and head home to work on my 32 bit machine at my house because it is unworkable. Photoshop CS3 runs like shit on 64bit, never have any issues on 32bit. Some of my PSD files are 300-400 layers though.

And SP1 just came out for Vista a few days ago

 

[wootoom]

vista is the worst prgram ive ever run