Friday, May 18, 2007

Photoshop CS2, slugish on Intel-Mac...

I got a Mac, thinking that it would be faster for graphics... but didn't realize Photoshop CS2 was not optimized for Intel Macs, and Rosetta (the translator of PowerPC code) makes it run so slowly, making Photoshop perform Much much faster in Windows XP or Vista ! (source: http://www.barefeats.com/bootcamp.html) So I bit the bullet and upgraded to the CS3 Suite... and now we're talking ! Thankyou Adobe. When it comes to video editing from a Sony HDD Camcorder, what a nightmare, Apple Aqicktime and iMovie don't understand MUXed MPEG2 Video files (see http://www.sparkplug9.com/bizhack/2007/04/22/sony-camcorder-mac-os-x-not-happy-together/). This makes sense as Sony wants to promote their PC line, which is Microsoft- OS based. So I'm having to use 3rd party software to convert the video...

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