Should I invest in a Macbook for video editing purposes or just continue to practice with Avid on my pc?

Depends, I think Avid is used a lot for television post production/editing. I could be wrong.

I think, in general, Macs are great for media work, editing video etc.
I don’t work in video editing professionally, per say, but in an art/academic environment, and Final Cut Pro is all I’ve ever encountered. I think the two are incredibly similar. I think the film industry tends to lean more towards Final Cut,
especially independant film (not sure on large post-production studios but I’d be interested to find out).

I think it matters what field of work you plan on going into with editing, and see what the industry standard is for your specific area.

If you are a serious player in the field, a MAC is essential. The returns will be well worth the extra expense.

I would absolutely go with investing in a Mac. I have an iMac and video production is great, so are the pictures, the quality etc, but Mac’s tend to freeze alot.

@AlyxCaitlin
your mac freezes?

mine has never frozen, for two years (or the one i had before that).
apps will lock up, but you can kill them.

i’m on a macbook, maybe iMacs are worse.
but for serious video and such, final cut on a macbook or mac desktop is great.

@quasi, mhmmm! I mean it never crashes, but it does tend to get “the blue circle of death” then I have to force quit my app. But I support Macs still :] it’s nothing you can’t handle! And they are way much classier!

@AlyxCaitlin oh right, yeah.. but it never like locks up to where you have to shut it off or anything. i used to have to reboot my windows pc at least twice a day. my mac never turn off.

horray for mac

Stick with the PC.

@Syger Any specific points you can give me defending my poor PC and AVID software? My wallet is not liking how Apple is winning. :P

I’ve been made to understand that Macs are used in the arts/media/entertainment business, except for the accounting departments. Period. When I worked at a corporate video house, the editor used AVID on a Mac. He also knew Final Cut Pro.

I believe you can still finance a Mac directly through apple. And if your in school, there is education discounts. (which as i remember, only entailed me typing in what school I go to).

If you do get a mac, you will not regret it, and chances are you’ll never go back.

Being in the medi industry in the Netherlands I can conform Avid is pretty much over.. It’s all gone to Final Cut and some even went to Premiere Pro becuase it supports fast and native processing of AVCHD and comes in line with a complete Adobe Suite.

Mac is mostly used because people don’t want to spoil time and money for maintaining and protecting the operating system as well as the better support for graphic software, hardware (64bit multicores etc).

You can go with a PC and Avid/Pinnacle/Premiere but that’s about it, you can if you don’t use it professionally.

I would recommend mac because of all the reasons listed above.

Mac all the way, but not a MacBook. MacBook pro, try to make it the 15” at least 13” is to small, don’t forget lots of RAM and Final Cut Express

or if you’re really that professional: Final Cut Studio which was recently updated