Eek. I bought a Mac.
I know, I know…. Mr. OpenSourceGuy… Mr. LinuxFiend… bought an ultra-closed Mac.
Well, given the choice… Mac or MS Windows… Mac.
I still have piles of Linux machines, and I dig them enormously. …but I have to say that I have found the Free and Open-Source Software available for Non-Linear Video Editing to be … sub-optimal. I was a booster for Cinelerra for a long time, and I’d jump back over in a second if I could get it to work reliably… but… I’ve wanted to do some significant video editing for a long time. I have hours of footage from my VisionQuest I need to edit. I have been unable to do it reliably under Linux.
So… FinalCut on a Mac or something else on MS Windows. FinalCut on a Mac.
The video NewsUndies have been recorded and edited on my Mac.
Do I love the Mac the way Mac lovers say I will? No. The UI is, in many respects, maddening. I’ve had a lot of trouble getting camcorders to work right with iMovie and FCE4.
I’m not convinced that “It just works” really works.
I find that generally, on generic hardware, Linux “just works” a lot better than Mac does.
But… for video… it’s working out OK for now.