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TMerry said:
I spent a LOT of time researching and talking to apple people before I settlled on
a macbook pro (and yes I still use PCs for email and html etc. but for protools and FCP -its MAC).

If you do go with the craigs list one you mentioned, It HAS to be the Intel version or you will be stuck with old version of Final Cut studio forever.

Anyway, since I've had my MBP, I've thrown everything at it from After effects with nested comps, Cinema 4d renders, Pftack etc etc.. It's never stuttered even for a second and it Eats-Up the code fast.

I had a G5 tower (but it wasn't intel so that's what spurred the upgraded to the Mac Book Pro), and its funny, this little laptop runs circles around my older tower. SO yes, I can see the reason for buy a new intel tower, but for what I do the laptop is the most versatile INHO. The only draw back is no firewire port on it.
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That's so funny. I had a G5 and upgraded to a macbook pro too. Love the versatility and it handles AE and FCP at the same time and I have no issues.
 
maybe i shoulda continued to talk to you last night...so we could keep each other up...I too fell asleep...but luckily we had 2 ppl working on this puppy...so Gary was at the helm and i was passed out! Gratz man, and thanks again for the script!

Rogan
 
Marlon Ladd said:
That's so funny. I had a G5 and upgraded to a macbook pro too. Love the versatility and it handles AE and FCP at the same time and I have no issues.
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No doubt the Intel machines are better (because they are also newer)... my point in mentioning the two G5s was just that they are still running strong at 5-6 years old.

Trust me, I'm the mac queen... Two Mac Minis, two Mac laptops, two G5s (and one G3 that still works but isn't hooked) one Mac Pro tower and two Apple TVs. And yes, I should mow the Apple Logo into my front lawn. LOL! I use Windows daily (for my job) and used it exclusively for many many years, but I would NEVER go back. Ever. Never ever ever.

I should change my name to MacFanGirl :)

Good thing you woke up Rodney! Talk about getting down to the wire, eh?
 
Wow! I thought I was a mac supporter. I got nothin' on you. You outta' have some stock in that company. LOL.

Funny story - my mom bought a PC laptop about 6-8 months ago. She's already got a virus and has to send it back. Stupid PCs!!
 
For some reason or the other I always seem to be really close to the wire. Last time I got an early version uploaded then spent the next two weeks tweaking the Color Correction before uploading at the last minute. This time, no such luxury...

Hey guys come on: just becasue I'm switching doesn't mean I'm dissing PC. I love my PC, but recently just too many issues and realistically I'm getting a lot more clients caring about the platform I'm editing on rather than the work I do. It's really a choice I need to make sooner than later especially since filmmaking is my fulltime job. I look at it like upgrading from the DVX to the HVX.

Besides, once I started working with contractors for sound and music, it started to make more sense since so much is built in to the programs already for cross connectivity.

If I really had a choice and CS4 didn't keep crapping out on me, I'd get a much better PC laptop for editing. As it is, the better laptop right now seems to be the Macbook Pro as it's going to be a lot more future proof.
 
Rodney V. Smith said:
I look at it like upgrading from the DVX to the HVX.
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Um, more like an sd consumer model camcorder to an HVX. Once you completely switch you'll be brainwashed like the rest of us mac zombies.

Well, what you did last time was have plenty of time to let your creative juices flow. So, you had the extra time to do more things with the film and put extra polish on it, which is definitely always good. That's what I was able to do with mine this time and it made a huge difference.
 
You're so biased Marlon. This is not my first Mac Excursion. I've even built a hackintosh (yes I'm a geek, duh!). I still stand by my DVX to HVX analogy because of my experience.

PC forever! Just Mac for the future...
 
Tom Marshall said:
I'm curious, how did that turn out? Any issues?
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A few issues.
On the plus side: EXCELLENT ****ING SCORE from Damian Sanchez, once again. I should have let him write music and just edited to that. Also performances were solid.

Then there were a few personal issues
A) No werewolves.
B) New script.
C) No equipment, less crew
D) Dodgy Premiere CS4 Installation
E) Inexplicable computer crashes
F) Many re-edits
G) Last minute VFX
H) I'm still stuck in Brooklyn

Argh.
 
Brooklyn is awesome! Come on. You can't hate it that much.

What happen to the makeup girl? I thought she suppose to pitch in and make you a Werewolf. Is the answer somewhere in your unbelievably long thread?
 
What happened to the werewolf movie... And why i'm still in brooklyn

What happened to the werewolf movie... And why i'm still in brooklyn

Sprocketboy said:
Brooklyn is awesome! Come on. You can't hate it that much.

What happen to the makeup girl? I thought she suppose to pitch in and make you a Werewolf. Is the answer somewhere in your unbelievably long thread?
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For those of you who don't know:
This was originally slated to be an awesome werewolf movie, but in the course of my travels during the summer I ended up washing my passport. I of course applied for a new one immediately and have spent the past 3 months fighting with the passport office to get my passport replaced. This leaves me stuck in Brooklyn at my Dad's house, while my wife and 17 month old returned to Canada without me.

Here's where it gets complicated: the passport office is unable to give me an estimate for when I'm to receive my passport and any estimates so far have been outright lies. So I'm literally in limbo here. I saw the situation for what it might become and realizing that I probably wouldn't be back in Toronto in time to shoot the werewolf movie (still had to do location hunting, meetings with the all makeup crew, and doing pre-viz with the 3D model artist, as well as rehearsals, etc), I pushed the production of the werewolf movie back to November.

I had a good location on hand with my Dad's house and tried to find a script that could make use of the location. I even talked to Chris Keaton briefly about doing one of his scripts, but nothing really grabbed me for the location. What I needed to do was write FOR the location, not take a script and adapt to suit.

Further complication: all of my equipment, except my camera gear, was in Atlanta and my 1st AD Dave was nowhere to be found. He was originally supposed to ship the gear to Buffalo and we were going to drive back over the border with it. Plans changed. Dave got evicted as well and my gear was in storage. In the back.

So I had no lights, no dolly, none of my grip stuff. Not even a flag or a scrim.

With the orginal script on hold I eventually came up with a script revolving around the house and we basically wrote it and polished it in 48 hours. Called up Jessica and Jaimyon and tried to make the whole schedule work. Jessica eventually flew down to shoot.

So yeah, this is not the werewolf script. Not the same crew I had assembled since they were all in Toronto, and I didn't have any of my resources open, plus all of the money I had raised for the werewolf movie... well, it is already committed to staying with the werewolf movie. So I made this with literally next to no cash while trying to reschedule and keep pre-production going on another movie.

That's my journey. Now you don't have to read the whole thread to see what happened, but it's worth it for a few laughs here and there.


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nothing wrong with Brooklyn, but I haven't seen my wife and son for 2 months now. Hard to schedule anything in this situation.
 
Yeah, you really had a tough time. I didn't know you hadn't seen your family though. That suckz. You need to sue somebody's azz! That's crazy! Again, you should win an award for just finishing.
 
Marlon Ladd said:
Yeah, you really had a tough time. I didn't know you hadn't seen your family though. That suckz. You need to sue somebody's azz! That's crazy! Again, you should win an award for just finishing.
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Meh. Lots of people have had a much harder time at it. It's just the way things go sometimes. You meet a problem and then proceed to solve it... or get your ass kicked. All your choice.

At least I didn't catch the flu. THAT would have grounded me some.

As for my family: my son now thinks that my wife's laptop is daddy. Thanks to Skype!
 
oh man!!! i am so sorry to hear about not being able to go home!

as for the flick i am most impressed but not at all surprised that you pushed on and made a film out of seemingly nothing. and i bet it rocks too!

i truly wish you the best in getting your passport ordeal straightened out. i think there is an office in connecticut that will expedite passport requests. not even sure if that will help you out though because if i remember right, i think that once you apply for a passport then the connecticut option is out. damn!!
 
Rodney V. Smith said:
As for my family: my son now thinks that my wife's laptop is daddy. Thanks to Skype!
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That's sweet. :happy:

I knew about the passport, but I didn't know it has been that long. They (whoever they are) haven't manage to process another one yet? That's insane. I can truly understand how your situation can get the best of you while you are stranded in Brooklyn. Here's to better times.
 
Poor Rodney.... :(
He tries real hard...but the Universe seems to have other plans for him!
Lucky he has a shaved noggin....cause he'd have pulled out all his hair by now!
 
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