Time For An iMac?
After reading more about the new iMacs, I’ve come to the harsh reality that my wife is going to need one for school. So it appears that we have no choice, Apple is about to make its entrance into our household.
Speaking for myself, I have never really seen the need for the Mac as Ubuntu does everything I need. But I must admit that ever since MainConcept decided not to bother releasing the now defunct MainActor program into the wilds of Open Source, I have been left looking for viable video editing tools.
In the past, I have been using a combination of KINO and KDENLive to meet my video editing needs, but I cannot help feel that having a Mac in the house will certainly be a welcome change as neither of the above options have seen much progress with new features lately. At least KINO has seen its share of recent bug fixes, but remains a rather ‘cutesy’ editor with no long term promise outside of the Windows Movie Maker crowd.
No, my best hopes were with MainActor, but their management made it clear that it is highly unlikely that it will be released with an open source license. It’s too bad really, because by allowing users to use this freely, they might have been able to sell encoding licenses through the free distribution of their application, with a non-GPL license, of course. Their loss, won’t be the first time a company misses the point, won’t be the last.
2 Comments
marc klink
August 7th, 2007
at 9:13pm
With each generation, Apple gets better, CLEARLY better, the same can’t be said of anyone else.
It has always amazed me that corporate America has not caught onto this by now, as initial cost, an impediment to many home users, has never been a problem for them.
I would venture a guess that the higher the IQ of the user, one of two things happen, either they buy a Mac, or they build their own machines. I am on the latter side of things, but moving toward the former, as there is something to be said for elegant design, something not usually found in the (IBM)PC world.
Daniel Gray
August 8th, 2007
at 4:48am
Welome to the other side, Matt! :)
I’ve been a cross-platform guy for twenty years (clacking away on my PC at the moment). The Intel Macs are lovely machines … so much more speedy than the old PowerPC boxes.
iMovie has a quick learning curve and there’s no shortage of plug-ins to extend its capabilities.