Verizon Iphone coming? Was: Qs about Verizon Droid

On 29/05/10 11:17 PM, John Higdon wrote:
> In article<[email protected]>,
> SMS<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> They used to take the P2 cards from the Panasonic studio
>> cameras and stick them directly into the Mac Books and start editing
>> on-site, until Apple dropped the CardBus slot from the Macs.
>
> Some studios do pretty much the same thing only with hard drives pulled
> from a Red camera. The drive is copied into the server (that has
> something like 42 TB on line), and then go to work on the FCP
> workstations. Pretty impressive to see it all go.

But the big advantage of Final Cut and an older MacBook was that you
could immediately look at the results out in the field and begin
editing, which was very useful when you were not shooting in a studio,
but out in the field.

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On 5/30/10 9:07 AM, in article [email protected],
"John Navas" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 29 May 2010 20:20:58 -0700, John Higdon <[email protected]> wrote
> in <[email protected]>:
>
>> In article <290520102002477445%[email protected]>,
>> nospam <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>> Network authentication and policies are, and they're entirely missing from
>>>> Apple.
>>>
>>> that's there too.
>>
>> You bet. Since the Mac rides on top of FreeBSD, anything available for
>> Unix is available for the Mac. I have a system that networks four
>> ProTools workstations together using nothing but OS utilities, shell
>> scripts, and Perl. Rather than being an Apple activity, it became a Unix
>> exercise.
>>
>> Try that on Windows sometime.
>
> Windows tools abound.

And you are such a tool.