The Departed: 'Made by a Mac' gets new meaning

If this were done on Windows it wouldn't be worth a mention now would it? I think the concept of directing while far away is great sure, for emergency changes like this but not the mac hype. It's too much.

This doesn't make up for WWDC.

I actually used to work for Mr. Scorsese, in his NYC office, as his Mac support guy. So when they say they pointed iChat at the Video feed from the video camera they probably didn't use an iSight, but a Firewire video converter. Hence the pointed out lack of the word iSight anywhere in the description of the set-up. That or the camera might have even had a Firewire out, for the on-set editor, which might have been hi-jacked for this purpose. That being said although I helped set-up a few things like this in the past, I was NOT involved in "The Departed" so I only speak from past experiences, not from first hand knowledge of this event...

This story is absolutely true... The LA Crew had a Panasonic HVX-200 camera hooked up to iChat via Firewire and Scorsese was directing from new york over the net..

ssssso, nothing new about the iphone today?

gotta agree with bootle there to an extent; it was a mildly amusing story, but it's being toted like yet another 'look! mac!!' story.

Bootle,
I found the story mildly interesting, and humorous. Pull the stick out, and lighten up, friend.

Eh, I saw it, it wasn't anything special. I was kind of disappointed really when compared to the Infernal Affairs trilogy. Definitely a lot was lost in the translation.

Come on, this is stupid. How many films involved 1+ conversations using an IM client. This is a non-story, and it's an example of mac user hype simply because it happened to involve "ichat". iChat is nice, but it's not God's Gift to IM.

I can see it now

Marty: CUT!

Marky Mark: Huh?

Marty: A/S/L?

Marky Mark: Leo is teh sucks!

Leo: Is this the part where we make out in the car on the boat?