What about LaCie Mayer-Landrut?
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What about LaCie Mayer-Landrut?
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I don’t all remember the exact settings etc. just that the phone can shoot edit and grade quite easily. For smaller projects, I find it almost easier to use an iPad or iPhone to edit.
That is part of the reason I am interested in FCPX, it just seems to be the more future forward app.
There are always times that I want more control, and then I will dip into programs like photoshop and Davinci, but there are also plenty of times I just need a few good sliders and filters to make adjustments. And editing on a phone and iPad is pretty intuitive. I find that iMovie on the phone is more intuitive than FCPX even.
I've tried other editing apps, and they are often overly complicated or slightly clunky. iMovie is limited, but it is easy to use.
Have not tried that Luma editor yet. Though it looks fantastic, it does seem to require the extra real estate of an iPad. Whereas iMovie is fine on the phone.
Thank you for the kind words
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NorBro
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The issue with various LaCie drives was the point of connection, which was maybe an engineering oversight probably mixed with a little questionable quality control (for those that had issues).
Because even if you have the world's best drive in an enclosure that provides faulty power and/or data I/O, it will be useless. (And a lot of the complaints I remember about LaCie were before they were acquired by Seagate.)
As many have learned, if you took the drives out and used them reassuringly with your own accessories then they were fine.
Because even if you have the world's best drive in an enclosure that provides faulty power and/or data I/O, it will be useless. (And a lot of the complaints I remember about LaCie were before they were acquired by Seagate.)
As many have learned, if you took the drives out and used them reassuringly with your own accessories then they were fine.
Run&Gun
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And Seagate drives used to be my GoTo’s, until Best Buy stopped carrying them. Before we got really fast USB 3.0 and USB C, I used to love the Seagate drives with the switchable dock connectors. I had an eSATA dock connector that I’d use with my NEXTO when making simultaneous copies.
JAMedia
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We use Seagate and WD Red in the raid arrays. 3, 4 & 10 TB HDD's but now the cost has come down we have moved to SSD's and M2 cards for anything up to 1Tb. We have an external M2 card in a USB3 adaptor. To think I was delighted to get a 128MB USB stick once!!!
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I've got an old external Porsche Lacie that is still chirping along. First gen.
Then I more recently bought a Lacie at the Mac store because it had some free bundled editing software that I was going to use at the time. Ended up not using the software, so I just over paid for a Lacie at the Mac store. Womp womp.
Had all sorts of drives go bad, from Samsung, WD, to Seagate. The "G" brands have been the most reliable for me. But ironically, they are also often the least tortured. They often get one project, and then after that left alone to be an archive of sorts. They just sit around not getting used after one project. sadly.
With SSD, Samsung has never failed. So, I just kept buying Samsung, and have zero experience with other brands on that. Helps that Samsun is also reasonably priced.
Then I more recently bought a Lacie at the Mac store because it had some free bundled editing software that I was going to use at the time. Ended up not using the software, so I just over paid for a Lacie at the Mac store. Womp womp.
Had all sorts of drives go bad, from Samsung, WD, to Seagate. The "G" brands have been the most reliable for me. But ironically, they are also often the least tortured. They often get one project, and then after that left alone to be an archive of sorts. They just sit around not getting used after one project. sadly.
With SSD, Samsung has never failed. So, I just kept buying Samsung, and have zero experience with other brands on that. Helps that Samsun is also reasonably priced.
filmguy123
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So, what do you guys all think of Lacie?
JAMedia
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That a good reputation is hard to gain but easy to loose.
I spoke to the LaCie Rep at https://www.bscexpo.com and he seemed quite dejected. He told me that Seagate now owned the brand. I told him I had no problem, with Segate HDD's but now I had solid state alternatives for external drives and other reliable suppliers for NAS.
I note Wiki Says
Joel Kamerman founded La Cie on three principles:
• Profit was more important than revenue
• Product differentiation would create profit
• Vertical integration was key to La Cie's long term viability
so they went for Pretty boxes and profit..... That bit their long term viability on the bum.
filmguy123
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"Paradigm Shift"
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-tested
TL;DR: The M1 chip is competitive with the best non HEDT cpu on the market today, the new Ryzen 5950x. Integrated GPU rivals some discreet GPUs. Rosetta 2 performance translating from X86 is outstanding.
Blown away.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-tested
TL;DR: The M1 chip is competitive with the best non HEDT cpu on the market today, the new Ryzen 5950x. Integrated GPU rivals some discreet GPUs. Rosetta 2 performance translating from X86 is outstanding.
Blown away.
Teddy_Dem
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I'm really liking what seeing from the tests and reviews with these M1 chip Macs. I may be able to finally return to using Macs.
Run&Gun
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And I think that's why so many bought them. The orange rubber bumper around the enclosure made people think they were indestructible super drives(not to be confused with Apple's SuperDrive).
filmguy123
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Yeah. I don't know if people grasp what a big deal this is. I am absolutely floored - FLOORED - that a Macbook Air is roughly equitable to a large box desktop workstation I am building with Ryzen 5950x in single core performance. This kind of change is unprecedented in the industry, it's a complete quantum leap in computing performance. Obviously it's not fully equitable when considering all things a workstation allows for in RAM, GPU, etc. And the 16-core 5950x Multicore still trounces the 8-Core M1 But..
... I'm almost scared to see what they do in larger footprint/form factor devices. When this architecture gets scaled up 'unleashed' in the incoming pro models next year or so, accompanied by the stronger GPU, etc. it may be a total blood bath. We will need more benchmarks to really tell, and a year of field use to find the gotchas - but the way this is looking, Apple may have an insurmountable hardware advantage for Pros again for sometime.
If their $999 macbook air rivals a desktop 5950x... what is going to happen on a $3k 16" Macbook pro? An iMac Pro? A desktop box Mac Pro?
Ok, I take it back. Good pre-order y'all. Good pre-order. You win this round.
... I'm almost scared to see what they do in larger footprint/form factor devices. When this architecture gets scaled up 'unleashed' in the incoming pro models next year or so, accompanied by the stronger GPU, etc. it may be a total blood bath. We will need more benchmarks to really tell, and a year of field use to find the gotchas - but the way this is looking, Apple may have an insurmountable hardware advantage for Pros again for sometime.
If their $999 macbook air rivals a desktop 5950x... what is going to happen on a $3k 16" Macbook pro? An iMac Pro? A desktop box Mac Pro?
Ok, I take it back. Good pre-order y'all. Good pre-order. You win this round.
NorBro
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I am wondering if the Windows OS running on the AMD chip is part of the reason why the M1 does as well as it does. Once all of the hardware is out I would love to see a benchmark comparison running some native Linux apps on both platforms.
filmguy123
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I don't think so. When you compare x86 based apps on x86 windows vs mac you don't see differentials like that, they are generally pretty close. You can also find bechmarks of AMD based hackintoshes to show this. OSX/11 is very well coded, but that variable doesn't come close to accounting for the differentials we are seeing here. This is a big deal.
It's going to be a slow burn though. There's a mountain of x86 software. Beyond all of the workstations and legacy systems worldwide, gaming drives a huge part of the PC hardware scene, and the new consoles are based on x86 hardware and have a 10 year lifespan. There's at least 10 years of transition/war here. We will see Windows gain robust X86/ARM compatibility and more and more apps supporting both as Windows ARM systems become available. I suspect we'll see in coming years, benchmarks comparing emulated X86 games running on ARM chips vs native chips. In a way, ARM chips running emulation will have to run at least equivalent to X86 chips generation on generation for a while. And I'm sure AMD and Intel will be pressing hard into x86 architecture to try and bridge the gap.
It may be a long bitter battle, but things just got extremely interesting. Either way the next 10 years we'll be seeing more CPU innovation than we've seen in the last 10, that's for sure.
rob norton
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Are you abandoning your PC HEDT build? I have a shopping cart ready with a list of PC parts which would be a powerful super computer for my needs. I'm finishing the edit on a big project then was going to buy it but I'm hesitant again!
My plan was to have the PC desktop as a comfortable, dedicated editing station (for 5-10 years) then add a smaller apple product for transfers in the field, working with other "creatives" who almost always have apple laptops and a more enjoyable smaller computer.
Do you think holding off for the M1 16" to use for EVERYTHING is the current smart move?