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A lot of the people that complain about Apple often don't create much content, they tweak. Professionals have money, they also are very busy, anything getting between them and doing their job is a cost. Building a Hacktintosh even if quite reliable when done is not even an option for most professionals. A piece of gear needs to be replaceable on a whim, if something breaks it needs to be swapped out for something that works ASAP. if you can't you lose money and credibility. I know it goes against a lot of the hacking that happens here but closed standardized systems are far better for professional work this includes iPads, iPhones etc. The problem with a lot of PC, Android, or whatever setups is that they really aren't very standardized and replacing a unit 1 to 1 is often not possible even after as little as a few months. Nothing wrong at all with going the other route there are just many benefits people often look past when comparing the two. And I think most people would prefer Canon, Panasonic, Nikon or whoever made a camera with all their desired features from the factory rather than feeling the need to resort to hacking, fact is they aren't and they could be.

In art, beauty often means that something looks absolutely purposeless, but with a hint that it's purpose is just too advanced for the recipient to see. You admire the form because it expresses a bold thought. In design, beauty has a condition: It must never contradict functionality, usability. The axiom reads 'form follows function'. I don't like the probably very high price of this, higher even if you think about all the expensive periphery, but it surely is a fantastic machine. It will be accompanied by a new version of FCP X. This software made many professionals switch to Premiere, because it had many flaws (and still has some). Today, it is stable enough, fast and with Resolve makes a dream team on the Mac. Once one overcomes initial preoccupations and edits a project with it for real (provided one has a fast enough machine), one will see Premiere as hopelessly outmoded. If not, that's the implied statement of this new Mac, you can as well stick to an array of PC-tower gadgetry with Adobe.

  Designing something is not just coming up with some cool empty concept artwork. Design is form+function, and in this case the seamless work between art and engineering. 3D modelling or photoshopping a cool enclosure and calling that "computer design" is a bit of a stretch.     That's an extremely important point, but a bit out of context here, since they've announced that the new Mac Pro will be assembled in the USA.

Some of my recent 50D video's. More info Vimeo.   Isco Ultrastar anamorphic (1.8x): http://vimeo.com/68011421   http://vimeo.com/67916713   http://vimeo.com/67351221

Using the May 28 build and the settings recommended throughout this post, I did a test run and posted the video on Vimeo.  I have a Lexar 64Gb 1000X card and was able to record at 16:9 at 57mbps without filling the buffer but had issues at 3:2 at 71mbps and couldn't achieve more than 450 frames before stopping. I used an external SmallHD monitor via HDMI and had weird intermittent frame garbage.  Happened in both 16:9 and 3:2. Workflow was RAW>raw2dng>Photoshop RAW>TIFF>Quicktime>FinalCut 7.   Shot with a Moller Bolex 1.5x anamorphic lens and Zeiss 80mm f/2.8. www.vimeo.com/67965891

Found some time to edit my shots I made earlier this week. Experimented with a new workflow, I wanted something faster than ACR/Bridge, so I used RAWanizer to convert to CineformRAW 444 (about 10 minutes for 21GB of footage), graded the clips in Davincie Resolve Lite 9 and edited in Premiere CS6.   http://vimeo.com/67916713