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August 05, 2006
A new arrival and experiments in video
My friend Nick and his wife have adopted a 6 month old girl from Korea. Congratulations to both of them. I have never had the pleasure of working with Nick, but most of the guys I work with have, and everyone calls him brilliant. His blog is always full of interesting information. He has recently gotten his first mac (about time if you ask me). In a recent post he sang the praises of ecto which I also did way back when. It is interesting to read about his challenges as he learns a new operating system.
Nick and I both have HI-DEF sony video cameras. My mac is a 17" G4 powerbook, Nick's is a new Dual Core Block Macbook. Nick is going to blog about his experiences in video editing, which I am eager to follow. On my G4, it is absolutely pointless to play with HI-DEF. It takes 4-6 seconds to pull in every 1 second of video. Yep, 4 to 6 seconds. Then actually manipulating the video is painfully slow, and so I have completely given up working with video on my mac. It is a shame, because I have done some work with standard video and actually had a lot of fun doing it. It gives you a great stage for exercising the creative juices, and every time I did play with video, I would learn new tricks.
So, I have an unopened copy of Final Cut Express HD waiting to be installed on a faster computer, and I look forward to reading about Nick's experiences.
Posted by pmadsen at August 5, 2006 09:10 AM
