Apple's Boot Camp

Funny, cless, how I can type open the terminal on windows too! How about that one, eh. And I even have my choice of cmd, bash, and monad, depending on what form of rape I feel like undergoing today.

In other news, AE7 is still just as buggy and slow as shit on Apple as Windows. (A way of saying the third-party differentiation just isn't there, and that's where 90% of my work gets done.)

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Final Cut Pro is Premier's equivalent, there's really no replacement for AE out there. I do like FCP better than Premier Pro, however, in some cases a lot better. Sadly, avisynth is still windows-only, so that gets the nod by default.

In most cases all the useful software that isn't provided by Apple is available roughly equally for both OSes, especially free software. What isn't, usually divides more into comprehensive (and often quick to use) commercial packages for windows, or small command-line utilities for nix systems. (Fontforge being a major exception I use a lot.)

I'm pretty much immune to the UI differences between the two, except that it takes about 20 minutes to get into the flow when I switch after some time away. Some things are better in each. Personally? I hate having to hit a different key for every variation of yes/no dialog out there. I love being able to use y or n in windows programs when I know the question but haven't memorized the answers.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

No, cless, I use it for semi-pro video editing, local shit and not film though. Some of the cleanup filters developed for it literally surpass anything I've found in commercial packages. I can get a damn frameserver anywhere. (loooooooooool quicktime. wtf?) And it's free and fast; video gets too expensive too quickly, especially 3rd party AE and Premier plugins. The upgrade to FCP studio isn't steep, so I'll check out motion, but I can't really jusify dropping another grand or three on Autodesk just to find out they suck just a little less than AE. And back to the point of this thread, they're also not mac exclusives.

How exactly is video editing awfully specialized, when macs have always catered to multimedia composition and editing? That's their fucking specialty. Or did you mean fansubbing? Most of them are hacks and neophytes, but they still fall into the bottom of the general video ecosystem.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.