If you've got the time and money to move to another system, learn another system more importantly - then go for it!
Hmm, so you're suggesting, that one should wait around for a year, still without support, use a product that aren't really fully featured, all because it's a bitch to switch platforms?
The thing is, a pro – any pro – care more about the end result (and in this case, there can be no BR end result), than they care about platforms. Of course it will cost money to switch platforms, but it's about timing. If you time it, the hardware wont cost more (as you will need to buy new hardware once in a while), and the "learn another system" is really a non-argument. I don't know any audio guy or video ditto who doesn't keep track of what's out there, and is pretty fluent on windows as wells as macs (when they use a mac, that is).
Further, it's not that difficult to learn a new video or audio app, when you know what you're doing, and have done it for a while.
Then you go on, and ask to me read a bit more, when I told you you argued the opposite. But you did, even if you aren't aware of it.
You argued that Apple has shifted focus, and that that shift of focus meant that the pro-support were toned down. And you argued that because of Apple moving people from the pro support to other places, that people should just wait. That is an argument for moving along: No pro-support, unless the people have the time for it, between working on iPhone and the Touch.
of course i "know" there are other platforms - i was asking if this is perhaps the the choice after moving platform. It is about the most popular for serious Vid editors. You could always go with Vegas instead!
No, you inferred, that the "othe choice" out there was going with Avid and buying hardware for it.
WAV is a digital file format, if you can't play it on your music player, you can be damn sure that in 5 minutes of being on any computer you'll be able to download something that will let you play it. Solid media like BD on the other hand needs special hardware to play that at the moment is expensive (as is the actual BD-R disc)
Haha, what a joke. You do realise the difference between wav and aif, right? Let me give you a clue: Little endian/big endian. And on a CD, funnily enough, the tracks are aif-files. Now, anyone can author a CD on basically any computer, and they sure can download something for it immediately (to play on the comp), but what you don't seem to get, is that it's FCP that doesn't allow authoring of a BR-disc. Hence the analogy and the reason why your argument that because not everyone can play, it perfectly fine for a pro app not to support certain features. Video and audio pros use non-consumer bit rates and sample rates all the times, not to mention non-consumer formats. Do you get it now?
PS - you need to read up on your steve jobs quotes
Why? Where did I quote Steve Jobs?
