After playing with iMovies for a brief time, I quickly discovered that I was going to need a more powerful program for my puposes. I purchased Final Cut Pro, Apple's professional video production studio.
I've been using it for about 6 weeks now. While the learning curve has been (and will be for some time), quite steep ... this is a VERY powerful program, I'm finding that I very much enjoy working with Final Cut Pro. I have been using Adobe Premiere for a brief time before switching to Apple, and I find that Final Cut is more user friendly than Premiere.
I'm currently working on a demo keynote speaking video for Catholic Servant Leadership ... I'll post the video as soon as it is complete.
Stay tuned.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Saturday, July 12, 2008
New iPhone stumbles
I was carefully watching the launch of the new iPhone. Despite my concern with returning to AT&T (horrific customer service chased me away years ago), the new features on the iPhone looked very appealing.
Apple was clearly making a significant investment in marketing the new iPhone, and the media ... given the summer doldrums ... hooked onto the news hungrily.
Surely, I thought, Apple saw the huge demand coming and was fully prepared for it.
At the last moment, I decided to delay my purchase, concerned about a feeding frenzy at the store.
Apparently, that's exactly what happened. Customer demand was huge, and Apple got caught with it proverbial pants down.
Amazing. Either (1) Apple couldn't see this surge coming; or (2) Apple COULD see the surge coming, and decided not to upgrade/increase the amount of servers they had available.
Either way ... very concerning.
Apple was clearly making a significant investment in marketing the new iPhone, and the media ... given the summer doldrums ... hooked onto the news hungrily.
Surely, I thought, Apple saw the huge demand coming and was fully prepared for it.
At the last moment, I decided to delay my purchase, concerned about a feeding frenzy at the store.
Apparently, that's exactly what happened. Customer demand was huge, and Apple got caught with it proverbial pants down.
Amazing. Either (1) Apple couldn't see this surge coming; or (2) Apple COULD see the surge coming, and decided not to upgrade/increase the amount of servers they had available.
Either way ... very concerning.
Friday, July 4, 2008
Basic Differences between Mac and PC
Wall Street Journalist Walt Mossberg has written a helpful column about the basic differences between the Mac and PC OS (Operating Systems).
A good reference for people starting out. I especially appreciated his discussion of "right clicking." That's the biggest erroneous complaint I hear when people talk to me about owning a Mac.
"But it can't right click."
Rest assured, Macs are quite capable of right clicking. On my Mac Pro I have a standard two button mouse. On my Macbook, I like using the touch pad (and loathe thinking about carrying around one more piece of equipment when I travel, even something as diminutive as a mouse.) I use the ctrl button on the my laptop. Works fine.
A good reference for people starting out. I especially appreciated his discussion of "right clicking." That's the biggest erroneous complaint I hear when people talk to me about owning a Mac.
"But it can't right click."
Rest assured, Macs are quite capable of right clicking. On my Mac Pro I have a standard two button mouse. On my Macbook, I like using the touch pad (and loathe thinking about carrying around one more piece of equipment when I travel, even something as diminutive as a mouse.) I use the ctrl button on the my laptop. Works fine.
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