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On 3/12/24 12:06 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>> Anim, as someone who has worked in the TV/Film industry I'd like your
>> serious opinion on something.  Elsewhere I'm involved in a discussion
>> where we are wondering how Apple can get away with the prices it charges
>> and is there anything it actually does better than a high-end PC.
>> Someone suggested video and audio (music) work.
>>
>> So my question is what would you use now for video and/or FX work?  And
>> why please?
>>
> 
> Well, I’ve been retired for a few years now and just doing consulting and
> kibitzing so I really can’t speak to what I would use if I were going to
> start over.
> 
> But in my day, the people that actually did the work did it on Macs or
> Linux and the people who thought they did the work, but were  just in the
> way used windows.
> 
> There’s a school of thought that “cheaper is better“ regardless of anything
> else. And those are the people that always wanted us to use windows. They
> would buy a PC for $1000 and say see this is way better than your Mac that
> cost 1500 but then they would have to go out and add a whole bunch of stuff
> to it and end up out of pocket $2000 and still not have half the computer
> the Apple guys did.
> 
> Compare this thinking to beta versus VHS. There’s absolutely no doubt Beta
> was better in every measurable capacity, but VHS was better at promotion
> and underhanded pricing deals. So it won.
> 
> The big thing, though was the software. The powerhouse software for
> animation didn’t exist or existed in limited form for windows. We used
> electric image for years and the big award-winning Intel inside commercials
> that everybody loved were done on Macs because the windows Intel machines
> couldn’t run electric image!  Linker systems, animation stand, which was
> the big deal for coloring and animating traditional cel animation, same
> notation. Mac only.
> 
> Similar notations for audio editing and production.
> 
> When I switched over to Maxon Cinema, 4D, because electric image got
> destroyed by evil Ukrainians there was a larger penetration of Windows
> users, but the serious version of the software and the serious users of the
> software were still all Apple based.
> 
> About the only things we couldn’t use were MAX and MAYA. MAYA finally came
> around. Then there was light wave, which I never liked for a moment. I told
> the guys at IIRC zoic who were doing firefly, and the new Battlestar
> Galactica, and the company was saying it was all done on lightwave that
> while Galactically sucked firefly was by far the best light wave I’d ever
> seen. They laughed and fessed up that lightwave never got anywhere near
> firefly; that was all Maya. Galactica was done by their B and C team in
> lightwave, copying as best they could stylistically what the A-Team was
> doing with Maya on firefly.
> 
> 

You know what really made VHS more popular than Beta?  In the early 
days, VHS had a longer run time. Beta didn't.

> Betamax’s ultimate demise was the shortage in recording times. A longer film, or even the average sports game, would have to be separated into at least two cassettes for the Betamax. But do you know why Sony intentionally kept the cassettes small?
> The cassette design was inspired by its predecessor U-matic. U-matic had a recording time of only one hour. But since broadcasters were the main user group of the U-matic, they never expressed any concerns because studios had multiple machines running and typically had commercial breaks separating recordings.

> Based off these trends, Sony believed one hour cassettes would suffice. They even dubbed the small size as “convenient” compared to the larger VHS tapes. Even the Betamax’s longest cassette, the L-830 tape, could only run for a maximum five hours versus VHS which started creating tapes covering up to ten and a half hours of film. Size does matter, and in this case the bigger the better. Consequently, VHS took over the market as the standard home recording device.


Since most movies used to clock in at 2 hours and under, VHS was a no 
brainer.

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