StrawberryKiss wrote:I'm sorry, next time I will direct it even more personally to the person I was directing to. A lot of my friends who use Macs have issues figuring out how to render it properly, and their programs are manually set to render to .movs. I did say it was in my personal opinion. When I said you guys it was directed to my mac friends. I was not trying to initiate a debate to whether or not Mac users have a harder time rendering or not, I was just showing sympathy.
You have to be careful with how you phrase your opinions. What you stated was essentially proposed as a fact, as opposed to an opinion. In your opinion, as you say above, many of your friends have issues learning to use their macs. This is very different than claiming that the process is significantly more involved than in windows. My decision to respond rather tersely was to stop the spread of inaccurate information. In many ways inaccurate information is a lot like a verbal virus. It can catch on with people and spread even though there is absolutely no basis in fact for it. There are 700,000 registered users on the org, and at the very least, many thousands of them at least lurk the forums, if not participate. I have tried extremely hard to demonstrate just how easy it is to use a mac, and in fact, started my first Mac Guide long before I myself made the switch more fully (although editing on the PPC a few years ago was much more difficult
for our purposes as AMV editors).
LittleAtari wrote:Samaya, I'm just going to quote something about Kionon from AMVorgasm's thread:
blabbler wrote:to summarize:
i am an ageing apple fanboi with too much free time and a big telly. furthermore, you could work on improving video and sound quality, avoiding lip flap and refining your roto technique.
I wouldn't call myself aging in the normal sense. The "I'm old" thing is a recurring joke based on my time as an editor. 10 years is a long time in any hobby, but I'm only 25, please don't age me too much! I don't have a lot of free time, actually. I work full time, and I tend to be rather boring in my sleep habits, going to bed around five or six hours after I get home at night. I was sick yesterday so I was on a lot more than usual, and today is Friday in Japan, so the weekend is upcoming. I am much less responsive during a typical work week.
I'm not an apple fanboy any more than I am a hater of windows. As I have stated repeatedly, Mac OS X (even on PC hardware) works much better for me. Personally. And don't we all prefer to work on what is more comfortable for us? I'm not advocating any one switch. What I am advocating is the halt to the dissemination of inaccurate and prejudicial information that will make it more difficult for current editors with macs (and don't be fooled, there are many of them around the org, and not all are visible) to get the most out of their systems. My goal is to help mac users in specific become better editors because I know how difficult it was for me to realise how easy it actually was moving wholesale over to mac from windows. I was the one who needed to mentally adjust. I imagine this no different for people who have had a mac for a while but never attempted video editing. And I am very familiar with the uphill learning curve when it comes to editing on windows.
So, in summation, there is no over all higher difficulty level, just different ways of managing workflow on each platform type. Hopefully, nothing to the contrary is propagated for any platform too much.
I do have a big TV.
In essence, if my writing style is firm, it is because I want there to be no confusion as to the information I am presenting, and I want it clear to other readers. My concern was not so much making a correction of you, StrawberryKiss, but rather to make it clear, quickly, to anyone coming along later that your opinion should not be taken as fact. Battling misconceptions is probably the hardest job on the org that veterans have, and it can really, really wear us down, because the flow of new people is never over. There's always one more inaccuracy to correct. I'm actually trying to make a difference for the better. There are out and out jerk veterans on the org, and if you haven't run into them already, I'll be surprised, but I am not one of them. I actually give a damn whether most people improve or not, and that means making sure that inaccuracies are not propagated and, yes, quashing them pretty hard whenever I see them. I can be blunt, but I will never be purposely malicious or offensive in a help post/thread.
