• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    27" 2015 iMac here. No problems whatsoever. I’m going to use this thing until it dies.

    Edit: Gotta love the downvotes for literally just owning a Mac. Good luck breaking into the industry as a video editor without one, guys.

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            3 months ago

            No, I don’t care to hold your hand and explain to you the whole idea of an industry preferring you have a specific piece of technology over others and how finding out you have that piece of technology helps you get work. You’ll have to figure that one out for yourself.

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                  Are we just talking about Final Cut Pro here? Theres a pretty short list of applications that don’t work on linux or windows well.

                  Do you just mean its easier to get a job if you have a Mac?

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                    The latter, yes. If you go to a meeting and don’t have a MBP, they’re going to think you don’t know what you’re doing half the time. And if you have a MBP for remote work, you might as well have an iMac or a Mac Pro to do work with at home too.

                    I’m out of the industry now and my MBP died, so I’m running Mint on a Thinkpad. And when this iMac dies, I’ll probably do something similar.

                    But if you are in the industry and show up to a meeting with a Thinkpad (or any other non-Mac), they’re often going to think you’re an amateur.

                    Is it fair? No. But them’s the breaks.

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                3 months ago

                Let me introduce you to a little thing called media production workflow, where there are over 500 different file formats in active use, and getting it right forms the basis of most links in a chain hundreds of links long.

                You start sending me botched files with the wrong codecs and see if I don’t find another subcontractor immediately.