[CoLoCo] [probably off topic] Linux beats mac - again

[Jim Hutchinson]

On Jan 31, 2008 11:25 AM, David Overcash <funnylookinhat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hah... funny you say that...

Said what?
>
> Adobe premier hardly ever works right for my buddies for re-encoding videos,
> I told him to use ffmpeg via command line in linux (easy to look up via
> google) and not only did it encode faster, but it did it correctly without
> any blips or messups.

It's not premier. It's Final Cut - an Apple program I think. It works
quite well. Our broadcast class uses it and I'm trying to learn it.
It's for editing together video, not transcoding or re-encoding. So
far, Kino looks like it does the same thing but I don't know how well
as I've never used it and hardly know final cut.

ffmpeg is cool. I've used a front end for it I think but the command
line stuff is confusing. It's like programming.

I think you are becoming a mac fanboy. I keep trying to like them but
I can't. Time machine is really lame. It backs up every hour and if
you want to use a network drive you have to, god forbid, use the
terminal to set it up. Probably the reason for that is they don't want
you to back up to a NAS as it's REALLY slow. However, who keeps an
external drive connected to a laptop. It's a cool idea but not well
thought out if you ask me. The only way time machine is cool is if you
can use a NAS.

Anyway, my humble opinion.

-jim
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