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On Feb 5, 2013, at 6:52 AM, Carey Dissmore <carey@imugonline.com> wrote: > Other than a few codecs that aren't cross-platform the files and projects can move back and forth pretty seamlessly. I also try to stick to Truetype fonts whenever possible to help with that. > > carey that "other than a few codecs" is a HUGE problem for me. not being able to write prores is a real show stopper. I've messed with DNxHD and its not been terribly happy because the codec has 2 color spaces and its a bag of hurt when apps don't write / read the color space correctly. basically part of my normal workflow is completely broken. TGA or TIFF sequences or uncompressed QT's via AJA or BMD codecs are just not workable for work beyond spots. then there are the win7 networking problems. not sure if they are fixed in win8 or not... but not having network discovery work is a big deal. basically win7 refuses to see any linux or OS X SMB shares. probably having to do with homegroup vs workgroup and MS deciding to "correctly" implement some part of the spec they hadn't of before breaking everything... typical MS. while AFP works on linux and its free I don't know of anything on win to do the same. kind of suprised that the coders who wrote AFP for linux didn't port it to Win. so while I'd like to have a cheap fast PC to crank work out, there are too many workflow stoppers for me to make it worth a consideration. I can sit and wait a bit more to see what apple will offer for a tower replacement and see if it works for me. if it doesn't then I"ll need to decide if I want to deal with the PC problems, or not. meanwhile... waiting to get a new iMac which may actually become my main machine. S |
