Other clients are gonna come in but in Italy nobody cares about decent post production anyway, they only understand that the DoP is the good guy - what a shame. 4) the client factor is going to be less of a problem because somehow they are their own main client. Nuendo and cubase I've used and they're ok too, so is Reaper, but I still prefer Pro Tools for everyday work. It's the one I like the most too for editing and mixing. It's a full avid commercial editing facility, they're gonna go with pro tools anyway. Somehow though I understood that usually we post guys are separated from the main video pipeline, so it's less of an annoyance 3) software choice is not an option. 2) The facility is fully PC, that's why their IT guy was pushing PC and I was asking mac. I'll be the one going to use mostly that rig - but still as a commercial facility probably more engineers are gonna come in. If I were you, I'd also be thinking more about what's the budget? Where can the extra money go to that'll generate me better income or improve my work flow? With the price gap of almost $100 to about $10,000, there is a world of things you can do like calibration mics, proper acoustic treatment, buying SFX libraries, etc etc.įWIW, 1) budget is not my problem in this case, this is a professional facility asking me what new computer I'd suggest for a pro tools rig. Think bigger, what else is your machine gonna be doing? Would you someday be doing game audio and run Unity or Unreal Engine? Would rather have the ability to upgrade what you want, when you want or be stuck in an ecosystem designed to trap you? Macs are generally more stable and doesn't crash as often, but as I said earlier I haven't seen anything in recent years where it wouldn't happen on a Mac. Some people will say "AMD is not officially supported by Avid" which is true, but the results speak for themselves, so far I hadn't had any issues that wouldn't occur on a Mac from time to time. Personally, I've been running PT on Windows with an AMD CPU for 5 years now and it's no different than being on Mac. However there can occasionally be some hiccups and glitches that happen for seemingly an unknown reason. TLDR: Pro Tools on either is fine, but if you can then Mac.Īvid has had great strides in with Windows in terms of stability. The moment some driver update, or PT update bricks the thing the PC has become more expensive. Considering even the maxed out 16" is around $4500 and maybe I can get pretty close with a PC at around $2000 I'd have to spec it, buy it and be able to get it working "flawlessly" in about two days of work total or it becomes the same price. I can go buy a 16" macbook pro that will run every big stage session I've been given over the last year with all the plugins active and all the tracks enabled or I can spend X number of days making some PC do the same. The cost is fairly immaterial when you consider time spent. So if you want to go down that journey that's fine but it becomes nearly a hobby in itself and most people I know using Protools would rather be spending that time mixing. Getting protools running "flawlessly" (what even is that, PT has never run flawlessly for me in the 18 years I've used it) on a PC is harder because there are so many more hardware iterations than there are mac hardware iterations and Avid doesn't proof the software on very many PC setups. r/FilmMakers /r/VideoProduction /r/Videography /r/VideoEngineering /r/Editors /r/DocProduction /r/Freelance /r/ProduceMyScript r/GameAudio /r/LocationSound /r/RateMyAudio /r/ProTools /r/Music /r/StudioPorn /r/SFXLibraries /r/SoundEffectSwap Use the comments section of the AudioPost Mine feature post at the top of the subreddit to link or tell us about things which you are affiliated withĬheck out the AudioPost wiki Related SubReddits Education, new career, and other newcomer info requests.Audio repair, removal, or isolation requests (Read the repair basics post BEFORE requesting audio repair, isolation, or to removals).Use the AudioPost Community Corner FAQ post for the following If your questions are about what lavalier mic's to use on set, how to make your shotgun mic look like a dead opossum, boom pole preferences, which cable actually is connected to the camera, etc., you should ask those questions over in r/LocationSound This is the subreddit for post-production sound geeks in Games, TV, Film, and Broadcast. What's possible?ĪudioPost Channel on Discord I About r/AudioPost Subreddit Info and Rules Specializations Info Various Related Links Business Resources FAQ / Getting Started Free ResourcesĭeNoise and Removal basics.
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