Recent content by imported_kwshaw1

For what it's worth, it honestly wasn't my intention to imply that clock speed is everything, so if I gave that impression then I wasn't writing my posts clearly. But it is definitely true that clock speed is one important factor in computer performance, and you must surely know that. This...

That's very good news for Mac users, and I'm actually glad to hear it. But just for the record, a report on this at www.hdforindies.com indicates that Apple is in fact converting to an intermediate codec: "The HDV is read in from the tape in real time, but then it is transcoded to an all...

Okay, I don't have time to go back and read all our posts word for word to see who said what. I did consistently try to make the point that today's 3+ GHz PC laptops will easily run circles around a 1.5 GHz G4 Apple laptop for most video production tasks, based on a wide range of published...

You don't know anything about me if you think I didn't know that before you said it, but I've never seen you acknowledge that clock speed actually does make a difference. Enough already on this point. Regarding the comment someone made about Tom's Hardware being biased toward Intel, that's...

Depending on what comparisons you look at, the answer is that it doesn't. Like I've said several times, clock speed isn't everything...but it does matter! http://www20.tomshardware.com/...221/cpu_charts-18.html

Interesting comments about the user experience with OSX. I have noticed that some of my PC software basically won't let me do other things under certain circumstances, but it's not clear whether that's due to poor application design or poor OS design. I'm also curious about the comparisons of...

In what practical ways specifically would you say that OSX is good at multi-tasking? Are you talking about the interface experience or perceived performance, or both? If it's performance, are you comparing recent dual-processor Macs to similarly configured dual-processor PCs? Based on people...

Just to set the record straight, I said before that I understand clock speed isn't the only thing which matters...but it's a fundamental fact that clock speed does have an influence on computer performance. If you understand how computers work you know that clock speed determines how many times...

Okay, it sounds like it's time to wind this down. I've said more than once that I think Apple has some good video editing products, but I think it's also useful to point out areas where PCs have advantages in this area--since that was the basic point of this whole thread. I particularly...

Okay, here's something for you to read, although it sounds like you're not likely to believe it: http://www.pcworld.com/news/ar...aid,112749,pg,8,00.asp Among other things, note that a single-processor PC outperformed a dual 2 GHz G5 Mac on the video tasks, and was only slightly behind it...

No, it's much more than that. The G4 is an older processor which overall was comparable in performance to PC processors introduced around the same time, based on a wide variety of real-world performance comparisons. Since PCs have gotten significantly faster since then relative to themselves, it...

I don't doubt that recent Mac processors have a good technical design (e.g. Altivec). And maybe for desktop computers it's ultimately a draw in terms of general video editing performance, but I've seen several side-by-side comparisons and first-hand reports giving PCs the advantage here. For...

If you actually read about how Lumiere HD works, or any other Mac-based HDV solution, and compare that to HDV options for PCs, it's clear that the PC products are more advanced with significantly better workflow. At best you might get comparable workflow on Macs using the $5000 Heuris encoder or...

Okay, so maybe I laid it on a bit thick at first about PCs versus Macs for purposes of video editing. As far as whether my posts are inconsistent, that's the difference between which platform I think is better versus whether both platforms are adequate for most video-related tasks. All things...

P.S. I did a search on the Creative Cow forums for references to "Heuris" and found some interesting results, including the following discussion: http://www.creativecow.net/for...&archive=_2004|7|6 It seems that Heuris has never shipped a complete end-to-end HDV solution and tries to...