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[Jim Leonard]

chris wrote:
>>Sorry, the mac mini doesn't serve my needs (I work with video and audio 
>>production, the stock mac mini isn't powerful or expandable enough).
> 
> Granted, if you are doing video work, I can see that even the fastest of 
> the G4's may just not be fast enough. But if that is the case, I assume 
> you are either after a dual processor G5 Tower, or you just aren't 
> serious about your video work (considering there is no match to it in the 
> Windows world.)  :-)

I won't refute your argument, because it's like trying to argue against 
artifacts such as the Shroud of Turin:  No matter what the facts, it is a 
religious artifact and is therefore impossible to disprove.

I will say this:  The tools I work with are not only Windows exclusive, but are 
also free (avisynth, virtualdub) and the hardware I use has had a total cost of 
$1800 (the only additions were 1GB RAM, half terabyte RAID, raw 8-/10-bit 4:2:2 
YUV capture/edit).  I am not working with DV; I am working with uncompressed SD 
video.  My project has tiny margins, so if I am to see any profit at all, I 
can't go mac because the equivalent would be over double the cost.  And I 
wouldn't have access to my power tweaking toys anyway.

> (I'm not being a troll, really, I don't care what machine you use or your 
> reasons to or not to use it... I'm just poking fun at your claim that it 
> isn't powerful enough)

Well, to be blunt, can it encode 10-bit video to MPEG-2 MP at ML 1.5x realtime? 
Or is there a *free* tool I can use on Mac that lets me perform temporal noise 
reduction with adjustable edge masking?  Or a scripting language that lets me 
perturb video with a series of chained filters and transformations (also free)? 
  If so, please let me know.  I am open to new ideas.

If I could go back 20 years, I'd buy an Amiga ;-)
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