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Nice machine! Powerbooks have always been cutting edge. Certainly, a portable MacOS Powerbook has alot of horsepower.

Let me reassure you that WinTel is for the most nerdy of nerds. In fact, if you really believe in the "revenge of the nerds", one only need look as far as the origins of MSFT and Intel.

Real conservatives use WinTel.

Is it easier to rip a DVD or CD on a PC or Mac?

I was under the impression that the copy guard features on MacOS were tighter than on PC's. It sounds like you take issue with that. What is the feature you are describing on WinTel (are you referring to copy guard features under Windows Media Technology?)?

You can certainly produce excellent work using a PowerBook Mac and DV camera with IEEE-1394 (firewire) transfer capabilities.

Your Canon GL-1 and the Sony VX-1000 have similar capabilities. One positive is that the Canon GL-1 can change lenses. Have you used that feature much?

The Sony VX-1000 permits digital video capture at 720x480 pixels at 29.97fps. I think the VX-2000 matches.

These two cameras are the best cameras for the consumer market that Freepers can buy to match a digital video editing standard which we're discussing.

What is the video editing package you are using? Premiere?

I know that After Effects has an excellent package of digital effects to go with Premiere.

Most "pro" shops use Avid. I think Avid has both Mac and PC based solutions, but I am not a "pro" video editor.

How did you guys archive your digital videos on the web?

Independent servers on a fixed/static IP addy?

Considering that Wintel has about a 95% market share, I would say that most people use WinTel, whether they are real conservatives or the Michael Moore types.

People who believe in higher quality, beautifully designed computers use the Macintosh. That's why we're so fiercely loyal. To me, Windows is a garbage product for people who are willing to settle for junk to save a few bucks. But that's only me :-).

I use Final Cut Pro 3, which was originally Macromedia Final Cut. Due to financial pressures, they sold out to Apple, so this excellent program is available only for the Mac. It's worth getting a Mac to use.

Avid is comparable on features but has an almost vertical learning curve. If you haven't learned to edit on an Avid system, you're going to be a lot more productive faster using Final Cut Pro.

I never liked Premiere; Final Cut is loads better and is just incredibly feature-rich. Its manual is the size of a brick and has over a thousand pages.

Macs have no copy protection features at all. The Media Center PC is way "ahead" of the Mac in this regard.

Ripping a CD is as simple as loading the CD in the drive and punching a button on iTunes, the included music player software. It's fast and easy. I haven't tried DVD recording yet, but I'm sure it's easier than on a PC.

The camera I have is the XL1, not the GL1. (The GL1 doesn't have interchangeable lenses). I bought the XL1 before the GL1 was introduced, or I might have bought that instead (and saved about $2,000). The interchangeable lenses would be nice if all the available options weren't $1,000 plus. I'm sure that if I actually did solid commercial work that was pulling down real bucks, I would have gotten the wide angle and pro-style lenses for my camera.

I happen to own an independent server myself, so naturally I use that. Simplifies thing a lot :-).

Hope that helps.

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