• @[email protected]
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    -34 hours ago

    Good luck breaking into the industry as a video editor without one, guys.

    A PC will run circles around a Mac for half the price, what are you talking about? They require you to use a Mac for some reason?

    • Flying Squid
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      23 hours ago

      It’s called an industry standard. You have heard of those before, I presume.

      • @[email protected]
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        13 hours ago

        Of course I have. But standards are not necessarily mandatory. Would you care to elaborate on this “standard” you speak of?

        • Flying Squid
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          13 hours ago

          No, I don’t care to hold your hand and explain to you the whole idea of an industry preferring you have a specific piece of technology over others and how finding out you have that piece of technology helps you get work. You’ll have to figure that one out for yourself.

          • @[email protected]
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            13 hours ago

            Seems highly unlikely that an employer cares terribly about what kind of hardware you use. All they care about is the end result.

            • @[email protected]
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              12 hours ago

              Let me introduce you to a little thing called media production workflow, where there are over 500 different file formats in active use, and getting it right forms the basis of most links in a chain hundreds of links long.

              You start sending me botched files with the wrong codecs and see if I don’t find another subcontractor immediately.

              • @[email protected]
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                158 minutes ago

                You start sending me botched files with the wrong codecs and see if I don’t find another subcontractor immediately.

                So you’re getting botched files and that is the fault of the operating system? 🤔

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                  Maybe. You think I’m getting ProRes RAW files from your Win11/Premiere rig? Fired.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    I have no idea. That’s what I’m asking. You mentioned “botched” files but now you’re moving the goalposts to proprietary file formats?

            • Flying Squid
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              13 hours ago

              Well you clearly know my industry better than I do, so I’ll defer to your expert knowledge.