> As Rob Davies' earlier post mentions the video/film/postproduction side of > the creative industry in particular is significantly weighted towards the > Mac. Apple's Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Logic, Shake, > Motion etc at the high end, and iMovie, iDVD, Garageband, iPhoto at the low > end are a formidable force in the industry that is acknowledged by most > commentators to be unmatched on the PC platform. Just see how much of a > Mac-town Hollywood is.
Just catching up on my email from the last few days. The above is truer than many people not doing video work realize. One of the projects I do for others involves those "screen saver' video montages that you see when you go into an office. The ones that display a bunch of their former projects or clients. I find that The integration between iPhoto, iTunes, and iMovie works so well that I rarely have to break out the pro apps for simple projects. The great thing is that if I do need to get out the pro stuff the integration between Final Cut, Soundtrack Pro, Motion, and DVD Studio Pro means that my life is just as easy. I've got a fairly powerful PC sitting on my desk as well and I find myself using it for one app or another (usually to convert projects to PC specific formats) but none of the apps are integrated enough to allow me to easily work on a complete project on the PC. If anything adding a PC to the workflow and keeping the Mac makes much more sense than getting rid of a Mac and trying to switch everything to PC.
