- So growing up, I was always a PC guy,
'cause a Mac was worth more than my life.
But it wasn't till I moved to Los Angeles
to pursue filmmaking where they were, like,
you basically can't use Premiere anymore
because that's not legit.
If you wanna take this seriously,
you have to learn either Final Cut or Avid.
And Avid is for the high and major studios
and you're not that legit.
So just do Final Cut Pro,
but Final Cut Pro only runs on Mac. So must buy a Mac.
So I made the switch from Premiere on a PC
to Final Cut on a Mac,
and I ran with that for a long time.
And I loved Final Cut, I got really, really good with it,
but Premiere slowly started to catch up
and come up with some stuff that was really cool,
especially when people started shooting on DSLRs,
like Canon 22i.
So in Final Cut I remember always having to render all my
h264 files into ProRes,
and importing that and editing that,
which was massive files.
But Premiere eventually was able to edit those files
natively, so that's when I really started to look back
into Premiere.
Some of you might not even know what I'm talking about,
but you know how you can shoot a clip on a mirrorless
camera or DSLR and you could just drag and drop that
onto timeline and start editing right away?
Like that is awesome!
I'm starting to feel like one of those people that's like,
"Back in my day..." (laughs) You know, "We had pagers."
What the hell is a pager?
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But there used to be so many major differences on what
each software was capable of.
But now I feel like it's kind of gotten to the point
where all editing software is reasonably powerful,
and can probably do everything I need it to do.
So I think the biggest reason I'm using Adobe Premiere
is because a majority of the production houses
and agencies I work with are also on Premiere.
So that makes it really convenient for me to bounce
projects back and forth between multiple people.
I'll start editing a video,
and then Sam will take over for a bit,
and then Steve will do some touch-ups to it,
and then come back to me.
Like we can all work on it together very seamless.
I feel like if I were to switch out of Premiere,
I'd be kind of that odd one out.
Kinda like when you have a group check going with
a bunch of iPhone users and that one person has a green
bubble.
You're like NO!
Or people that you Square Cash instead of Venmo.
Like everybody uses Venmo, so just use Venmo.
But they're like, oh no,
Square Cash is better because of this and that.
And why is Venmo sharing this private inform...
I mean just use Venmo. Everybody has it.
With Avid, Premiere, and DaVinci all being software that
you can run on both PC or Macs, there really isn't
that hard limitation that there used to be.
And things are getting really cross-compatible.
So I ran a little poll on Instagram,
64% of you edit on PC,
and here's what you guys said about your computers.
- I'm team PC. One, you get more bang for your buck.
Two, that money that you save from not buying a Mac
you can use to buy more camera equipment.
Three, gaming. Just better gaming system all around.
- I prefer editing on PC
because that's what I grew up using.
And PC has just been more intuitive for me to use.
- It was significantly cheaper to get started with a PC
than it was with a Mac.
My next reason is how upgradable it is.
I have five terabytes of storage inside of my computer now.
- Been a PC user my whole life.
Now, I'm starting to see that Mac has the nicer body,
and just design.
So I actually bought a PC that copied all of Mac's specs.
- I edit on a Macbook Pro,
but literally the only reason for that is
I started out in iMovie, so when I transitioned to
Final Cut everything just made sense.
- I choose Mac because it's fast, reliable,
and has great software.
- I edit on Premiere Pro on a Mac Mini because
it was on sale in the refurb section on the Apple Store.
And you gotta have the big monitor so you could always
be watching TV while you work. Right Here.
- Now me personally, most of my day in, day out,
or some light editing takes place on this Macbook Pro,
but all my heavier stuff has been going on to this Asus
Windows machine.
The performance you get for the price is so good,
and it's also flexible, and a lot of them are upgradable.
And Apple's just great at making things very simple,
and stable.
And there's just so much going on in the Mac OS that I love,
like AirDrop, or iMessage.
Full disclosure, I don't know that much about computers,
all right?
So when I look through a spec sheet of a computer I'm like,
don't know what that is, don't know what that is,
don't know what that is.
All I care about is how smooth my editing process is.
Turning on the computer, opening up Premiere,
editing, rendering, shut down.
And I'll take any computer that can do that as
smooth as possible.
Then I really started to see a need for some high-powered
computers when I started shooting on higher end cameras,
like that RED,
or even this little basic camera shoots in 6k RAW.
There's cameras shooting 8k or more.
Just to put things into perspective,
remember when full HD was all new, 1080p, if you could
edit that you were a god.
8k is basically 16 times more pixels than 1080p.
Each frame is like 33 megapixels.
I could edit full HD all day on this thing,
but 4k starts to get a little rocky depending on
what CODEC I'm using.
And 6k and 8k, like no thanks.
So I started looking at some of the more powerful options
in the Mac world,
and it's like nope! Can't afford that. (laughs)
What is it, like $6,000 starting?
And to get a fully spec-ed out one,
I read around 35 thousand is what they're expecting.
35 thousand!
Like I kinda wanna play with one one day just to see how
fast I can render out a YouTube video with it.
But I know I'll never be able to afford that,
so shout out to Asus for sending this PA90 over to me.
Again, don't know much about the spec sheet,
but when I show people they're like,
whoa it has a Nvidia Quadro P4000.
I'm like, okay, don't know what that means.
So one thing's for sure,
the projects I've cut on here would have definitely
choked and probably exploded my Macbook.
editing on this system did take a minute for me to
readjust, though. Just because it's the first time I've
been on a PC Windows machine for over a decade.
Lots of things that come back to me very quickly,
and it is very familiar, but at the same time
it just feels like the newer, refreshed version of it.
I'm also being reminded about how Windows comes with
a bunch of random stuff pre-installed.
Should I be concerned about this random icon?
Is this a virus? Do I need an anti-virus?
Ah! Solitaire! Remember This?
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There's officially about two hours of me
just playing Solitaire now, so Sam,
I apologize for all this useless raw footage.
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'Sup! Mic drop.
It's Sam's birthday today, by the way.
So, you know, tell him happy birthday. (toy horn)
There's also a few extra steps on setting up the PC,
like installing drivers and all that stuff,
which I rarely have to do on a Mac.
But once you have everything set up,
and have your editing software installed,
everything is just turbo boosted from this point on.
One thing I did like about this PA90 is that it comes
kinda prebuilt,
'cause I'm not smart enough to custom build my own computer.
Although I have always been a little bit jealous
of people that do.
It's cool and they look really smart putting it together.
And with those it's so cool that you can
always just keep upgrading as you go.
So, if you wanna increase a certain part of the computer
you can just swap out one piece opposed to going to the
Apple Store and going, hey I wanna get a slightly faster
graphics card.
And they're like, well you can buy this new computer.
And since there's so many different companies making
different hardware for Windows,
it's always cool to see what kind of stuff that people
come up with, like this Microsoft Surface.
I mean it's a laptop, but you can also release the
screen into a tablet.
But it gets more power and performance if you
stick it onto this keyboard.
And once it's on there it's like,
I think magnets that hold it on really strong.
And they're also saying that this hinge was made from what
they use in astronauts' gloves or something. I (mumbles).
So on paper, PCs just make so much more sense. Right?
From across the board more power, less price,
more innovation, more cool stuff happening.
And I was intending to make the full switch over to Windows,
but I just can't give up my Macbook Pro.
And I think the reason is because it's just so simple,
and it just works.
And I think that is the one upside of Macs not
being as flexible.
I'd say it's very, very frustration free, and you're less
likely to end up on the phone with technical support.
I'm also an iPhone user, so of course I love AirDrop.
Just, if I take a little video I can just
boom, boom, boom, boom to anyone else around that has a Mac.
Also, I hate texting for some reason.
All my friends will tell you how long
it takes me to respond.
But I'd say 90% of my text messages go out through
my laptop, which is possible again through iMessage.
Also, just navigating on a Mac,
it's nice that you could click on any video, or photo,
hit space bar and you could preview it.
Technically you can install an aftermarket plugin for a PC
to do that, but it's just not nearly as fluid or as quick,
so I don't really use it that much.
So for me, I just love how Mac has all those little
intricacies figured out.
And of course whenever I need that high performance
I go straight to this PA90.
And I used to think that you had to be either 100% Mac,
or 100% PC.
And sure, that might be ideal, but right now I'm using
both depending on the project.
And it's not terribly difficult to go back and forth
between the two, 'cause like I said,
as soon as you get your editing software open it's
pretty much all the same.
I'm still using my same monitor.
This is the Asus PA32UC.
Man, I'm good with these model numbers.
I remember this stuff.
I can use the same monitor, I could use the same keyboard.
Ooo! The difference, though, is the control and the windows.
All my shortcuts are kinda flipped like that whenever I
switch between the two.
So that confuses me a little bit, but it's not a big deal.
Anyways, let's go read some comments. Woo!
So my last video was all about the BlackMagic Pocket
Cinema Camera 6k.
It's a $2,500 camera that shoots 6k RAW. Wow!
Is it amazing? Does it suck?
Watch the video to find out.
Top comment was from Noah.
BlackMagic just released a free plugin for Premiere.
(banging)
I just bought two licenses to use
BlackMagic RAW files in Premiere.
Of course, days after they would just come out
with it for free.
I uploaded in 8k so you can watch the upscale 6k on YouTube.
Me watching in 480p. (laughs)
Rendering out an 8k video and then uploading it,
it just took so long.
And when you first upload a video to YouTube,
it doesn't give you all the resolutions all at once.
It starts off with like 270p, and 480p,
and then eventually gives you the HD options.
Then eventually gives you 4k.
And I think I've been waiting for the 4k and 8k
versions of that video to appear for, like, I think almost
40 hours. And it still hasn't shown up.
Takes forever.
But clearly it's not like it even matters.
Like, very few people are probably actually watching
it in even 4k.
When using a gimbal, even tying a shoe looks cool.
It does. With a little bit of movement and a somewhat
shallow depth of...
Everything just, you can film anything. It'll look cool.
Dude, I love the way you always find a way to
showcase your RED camera. Pure flex fan.
RED camera? Which? Where? This one?
Oh, this one! I didn't even know this was here!
You don't need a gym membership when you can just vlog
with that setup.
That is true.
You'll get some serious biceps vlogging on this thing.
But I did just sign up for a gym membership yesterday.
I am done being the kid from Up. I'm gonna get ripped.
And hopefully it won't be like last time,
where I bought like a two year membership
and stopped going after two months.
And I think that's all I got for today's video.
Don't forget to eat your vegetables,
and try not to be a piece of (beep).
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