Deep Hating

[pasithea]

Grr. I LOATHE Windows. I had a really keen entry for the Artist's Ambush tonight which I'd done in Flash (I still don't have a tablet for my Mac so I'm stuck doing tabletly things on Windows) But no. It crashed. it's gone. Eradicated, wiped out. So I thought, 'Ohwell. Flash just sucks." So I decided I was going to work on some homework and do an animatic for 'Free as a Bird'. I'd scanned the stuff to the PC (scanner isn't hooked up to my Mac) and so I opened the GIFs to work with them in Premiere. WRONG-O! Windows (having already crashed on my 4 times in Flash) decided to crash SIX MORE TIMES every time I tried to open a SIMPLE FRIGGING 1500x1000 GIF IMAGE Okay, so like I've opened LOTS of GIFS on that machine and I've opened LOTS AND LOTS of them in Premiere, so what gives? Who knows? Anyhow, after wasting 2 hours of my valuable creative time with Windows and getting NOTHING to show for it, I gave up, burned the GIFs to a CD (stupid because it was only 60M of stuff, but it was 50 files and surprise surprise, Windows 98 is too incompetent to talk to SAMBA properly too) I took the CD to my Mac and LO AND BEHOLD The GIFS opened fine... In the same version of Premiere. Wow. What a concept. In addition, it didn't crash every half hour like my PC does. In fact, I used Premiere for about 6 hours solid on Sunday and it didn't crash once.

*sigh* Unfortunetely, Premiere is the one place that my 450Mhz Mac is noticably slower than my 1.8Ghz pentium. When doing the raw brute number-crunching to composite full-resolution DV video, it's slower than my PC. On the other hand, the PC can render the stuff but can't play it worth a hill of beans and the Mac plays it just fine. I obviously just need that Dual 1.4Ghz G4. ;) Foo. very unproductive evening. Eventually I gave up and went to Kinkos to make more copies of my storyboard pages. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

Comments

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

So it's not just me.

IT'S WINDOWS.

Bleah.

I feel your pain.

Thanks about the videocard, for remembering me! I'll look that stuff up, get back to you.

[tigrise.livejournal.com]

*hugz* I feel your pain. I'm a self-proclaimed gamer, so 75% of the games I want to play are PC-only and regularly lock up, crash, exit for no apparent reason, etc etc etc... I think that's the reason I became so enamored with Alice - it was a fun game FOR MAC! What a concept!

Is it a SCSI scanner? I know they make Firewire=>SCSI dongles, but they cost like $100 a pop. We have two scanners for Yarf stuff, a USB and a SCSI2 thing. None of the macs have SCSI anymore, so the SCSI one has to be on the PCs with SCSI cards in them. I have SCSI cards for macs, but no mac towers. And there are no Mac OS X drivers for the USB scanner, only OS 9 driver (which are questionable in functioning at best).