Editing is all Mac based now
I mean, you know, the programs out there are on the PC but whether you're using Avid or using Final Cut pro
You're working on a macintosh
Using a mac is different than using a PC
It's not so much operating a computer, as it is sort of tricking it, fooling it into doing what it is you really wanted to do.
You kinda have to sneak up on a mac.
I don't feel like i'm operating the mac so much as i'm just there, sharing the mac experience.
And if i can do something useful, while the mac is willing, so much the better!
One of the coolest features that macintosh is, it's really easy to shut down.
All you have to do is be using a piece of software, and poof! It goes away! It's gone, it's shut down.
You didn't push any buttons, you didn't close, you didn't even save! It's just gone!
Unless you want to shut down a mac! Oh, that's a whole other story.
I mean you try to close a program, and it locks up! And then you do that funny, what is it, the clover-leaf/period thing?
The unnatural and ultimately useless interrupt key
Then nothing moves! Then you push the power button, and it won't turn off!
You go around and unplug it, and you better hope you're not on a laptop,
cause then you have to find the damn battery and try to pull that out, or the thing will never shut down!
So i put my cd in the cdrom tray, and i'm copying media of that cd
dragging'em on my desktop, dragging'em on my desktop, dragging'em on my desktop
I eject it... and where did my files go?!
It's the only OS i know of where "click and drag" does not mean you actually copy or move anything
No! you're just making shortcuts on your desktop!
So i got my next cd and i slam it into the cdrom tray
And 'lo and behold, it starts playing, all by itself!
I'm looking for a way to turn it off, finally out of desperation, i click-and-drag the cd into the garbage can
The system locks up!
So i go to the clover-leaf/period/spacebar thing, hoping i can stop the program
And i get a little caution window, saying
"Careful, interrupting this program may lock up the system."
I try to click OK, BUT THE SYSTEM IS ALREADY LOCKED UP!
I like the handle here. That's so you can attach a chain and use it AS A BOAT ANCHOR!
Tha mac is practising some kind of bizzare pshycological warfare on me
Because i'm working late at night, at the corner of my eye keeps seeing this thing, jumping up and down
The update manager is bouncing at the bottom of the screen like a Jack-Russel-fucking-Terrier.
So i'm looking around in the list of the files, trying to find the executable that wants me to update
And if i click on any one of them by accident
I RENAME IT!
Oh no, it's been renamed "nothing", it was some kind of important system file
AN THE COMPUTER CRASHES!
On a PC, no data is really lost
I mean there is a way to undelete a file
If you know what you are doing in DOS, you can go and recover anything that's being corrupted.
On a mac if you lose a file, you run to the store to get a copy of mac version of Norton Utilities
You run back, only to have Norton go
YOU IDIOT, YOU OWN A MACINTOSH! THE FILE IS FUCKING GONE!
IT'S JUST GONE!
You don't have any tools or any kind of buttons or whatever dials or switches on the bottom of the screen
Because if you reach for them, the DOCK MENU COMES UP!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHH!!!
You go like, angle around and slide and dodge the thing to get to the control.
It's kind of like boxing with your computer!
I can put it on the bottom, i can put it on the left, i can put it on the right
Nooooo, i can't put it on the top!
That's reserved for the mighty blue Apple!
My name is Hunter Cressall, i'm an editor, and i cut together, everything you saw tonight, on a macintosh.
Mac -kills- my inner child!