My friend and co-worker finally convinced the powers to be that he needed a Mac to run AVID as that would be better than the Windows XP/Premiere Pro set up he had.
After the hassle of getting permission and then the first person refused to buy it so he needed another department head to pay for it on Thursday he got AVID and the Mac. And AVID will not work on the mac. Apparently it will be another month until the bugs are worked out and it will work on the mac. In the meantime he installed it on the XP computer. I laughed and laughed cause he is always telling me how easy Macs are to install software and hardware and now the reason for buying it does not work. Of course once I realized that it just means it is that much longer that I have to wait to get the XP and have to keep using the computer I am using I stopped laughing. Using a 2000 machine with about a 1/2 bit harddrive or so it seems cause there is nothing on the computer and no place to put any files but at least I am seldom in the office using it. I sent him the link to the free Avid program as maybe that will work in the meantime and also downloaded it at home. Thanks for the link as will give it a spin here at home as probably be using it at work sometimes as well. Am not a Mac user for three reasons a)they were way too expensive when we got our first computer and b) several programs I need to use Idrisi and ArcGIS are Windows only and c) whenever I do use a Mac I can never figure out how to turn them off. I will defend Windows over Macs to people that I know and also know it will bug them. That includes my friend and only cause he is always bragging them up. Plus it is my understanding that buying Windows will keep the Gates family from living a life of poverty. In other words I use a Windows machine as it is just a computer and so what :) The college here teaches Final Cut to the Visual Comunications Program , the cable company used to use Premiere when my friend worked there and the local production house uses Premiere. Think the local TV station uses whatever program can give them the most ugly transitions to cover up the lack of writing on local commericals :) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
