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    I notice there are not many posts on the MAC forum, is this because MAC makes it easier to do video editing & VCD so on or are MAC user's just smarter than PC users?
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    i guess no one uses MAC.
    Well, I am the slime from your video.
    Oozin' along on your livin'room floor.
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    Its simple..... Try putting together a audio cd with 1 huge AIFF file with connecting songs. Then return here and tell all of us what CD authoring program will allow you to place indexes within the AIFF file layout and create multiple tracks without any "audio drops" at index points. Mac is very obtuse for anything outside graphic work and all the big boys use windows nt/2000 anyway... even in hollywood Mac=high price multitask if you dare cant even have a stable online experience door stop. apple will bankrupt in 3
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    More than 20 years of Apple computers says your 3 is more like 60. As for the topic, Macs are not better at VCD creation, just different. Macs don't support fully the CD-ROM standard for VideoCD (CD-ROM XA) so every VCD made on a Mac comes at a dramatic learning curve. Macs are better suited to working with other kinds of digital video, like streaming Quicktime and DVD.

    Ever since switching back to Mac this year (OS X was irresistable), I haven't looked back to PCs, although I still use one at work. The Mac Video Creating forum here has been pretty helpful, and a great place to share what I've learned without being constantly flamed for sharing knowledge. The Mac forum here is probably the most focused one of the lot, and I really appreciate that.

    To answer your question "Is Mac better?" I'd say no, for VCD making. Is Mac different? Yes. If Apple tanked in 3 years would I go back to PCs? No .. I'd develop a hobby outside the house at that point.
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  5. There is simply more software available for capping, editing, authoring, etc for the PC than the Mac.

    I have a G4 400 w/ iMovie 2, Toast Ti, MPack, capping via Hollywood DV Bridge. Very user friendly, but long on rendering and constrained to QT codec and Toast's conversion process. Doing filters in iMovie took so long on my 400 that I didn't bother. VCD's were not great quality.

    Since discovering this EXCELLENT forum, I have tried doing some of the 'save to AVI, use TMPgenc in VPC', etc but too time consuming. Get a faster Mac? $$$$$$$. Bottom line is I took note of what members here were saying about Apple codec being inferior and praising TMPgenc.

    I went to Fry's and bought an eMachines 900MHz for $350 and use Studio DV to cap/edit, TMPgenc for SVCD and DVDMF to author. The speed and versatilty let me accomplish more.

    If you have a newer, faster Mac and aren't looking for frills in VCD, its very effective, esp for newbies.
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    Thats the other thing I wanted to mention. Many Mac owners have done just that: buy a cheap (ahem...) inexpensive PC for VCD creation. I on the other hand am no longer that passionate about VCD (the habit is dying hard for me!) ... but for the purposes of using up all these blanks I still own, I'm gonna buy a standalone VCD unit. I never got better quality with a PC on my own than one can expect from a Terapin (and have never gotten a commercial quality VCD from a DVD rip [XVCD is another story]) -- except for the one VCD I made on the Mac so far.
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    I have to agree with the pro-PC argument here. I'll be honest, I really don't know where the idea came from that Mac was magically better at anuything audio/video than PC... perhpas because Macs came with some port attached for this purpose, only a short time before it was proliferated on PC formats...

    But honestly, just think about this. PC technology has left Apple in the dust. There's like 10 PC technology leaps to Apple's 1. And software may be the main "nail-in-the-coffin"....

    Think about it... how much software is available for the PC? All the little home-made programs devised solely for assisting in VCD/SVCD creation... any of those for MAC?

    And I can't name a program Mac users use to edit (Adobe Premiere, etc) that isn't ALSO available on the PC.

    Plus, PC's are CHEAPER!
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  8. I asked my girl that.. "Would my underwear better than yours? or yours better than mine" Even it fits, she said.. "her still better anyway"
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