Which is best for 3d Animation??

Which is better for 3d Animation and graphic design? Mac or PC...and for whichever is better which laptop would be a good affordable choice? Please help! I know very little of computers.

Ok, time for a little bit of an explaination. Sorry, please sit back, grab some coffee and a snack, this is going to take a moment.
*ahem*
The argument as to which is better between PC and Mac has been raging for years. On one hand, most graphic designers that are small and starting up are convinced that Macintosh Apple is the top dog on this department. Larger graphic firms tend to switch to PC, keep mac, or use something proprietory.
Is Mac better? The general consensus is yes - straight out of the box, it tends to work better. There is no doubt, however, that you can get the exact same results cheaper if you go with a PC, but with a PC, you'll have to configure your system.
So, where does that leave you? It leaves you with program and compatibility. You need to ask yourself, 'what 3d Modeling programs have I been using? What specifications do they require? Do they have a PC and Mac version? If so, which do people tend to say works better with it?'
and..
What is everyone I'm working with going to be using? PC, or Mac? There might be issues converting things and transporting things (or at least extra steps) if I go say, PC and everyone is using Mac.
Answer those questions and you'll have your answer.
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Which is better for doing animation? Flash 4, 5, MX, CS, or
others?
I am used to using brush function more conveniently in Flash
4 than the other versions I ve tried. However, Flash 4 doesn't have
pen tool.
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or others?
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> I am used to using brush function more conveniently in
Flash 4 than the other versions I ve tried. However, Flash 4
doesn't have pen tool.
all pretty identical tho I would go with cs, just because I
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more than other versions...
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Alright.. I'll approach this from a simpler angle.. I use Adobe products and IMovie for my animations.. i also use IMovie to edit video and then break that video down into per second frames for rotoscoping.. now this was awhile ago when it was a OS 10.1 world and all I had was Imovie 1. I've grown up some since then and now need better resolution. I've learned HD is not well excepted by the HD6 and to stick to DV mini tapes. Which is fine by me. In the past I used a panasonic for my simple needs. i wasn't concerned with high definition, but i am now.
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24p (.."progressive" ..meaning that the video frames are complete frames full of video, instead of being two fields which each contain only half the data..) is the frame rate used by movie cameras which use film.
Some video cameras can shoot at that rate - as you've found - but they still record the data onto tape at 30fps (US style) or 25fps (European frame rate).*
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So forget 24p. It's uneditable in iMovie, and it achieves nothing.
The 'p' format, though (..separate frames one after the other, instead of a pair of fields..) might possibly be handy for you, as each frame has full, complete video resolution, unlike normal camcorder 'interlaced' video.
"..he said that the human eye sees at 24 frames per second or equivalent.. so do i need a camera that shoots at 30 fps?.." ..all stuff and nonsense, I'm afraid. Cinema films are projected at 24 frames per second, but humans can see the flicker at 24fps, so each frame is shown twice - the projector shutter opens and closes on each single frame twice as the film moves through the projector at 24fps, with each static frame being revealed and concealed twice while it's temporarily stationary in the film gate.
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I posted to the flash forum but really looking for feedback from flash, flex, AIR users as well
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BTW, David
I've tried Prism trial version, the files can be inported into FCP, but they need unbeliveable long period time to render when you finalized the sequence and try to exporting them, BTW, when editing with the Prism converted files, my FCP becomes very slow, or non-responsive so to speak, it wasted me tons of time.
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