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Feb 4
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I am working on a slide show I for my (soon to be) brother and sister-inlaws reception. Actually, that isn’t true…I am sitting here while my poor overworked Mac takes a minute a slide to effect the changes I asked of it.
No sweat, I will just come back in two hours…should be done by then. Of course then I will need to tweak more stuff. So, at this rate I project being done by about next Easter.
Crap, now it is going through and reworking the transitions. This is going to take forever. I am hurting for a machine that can do a little more heavy lifting in the processor department.
Sidenote:
I remember the first time I made a slide show digital movie, it meant digitizing each frame of the film and then paaaainfully manipulating them. Comparitively this thing on my desk is a wonder, but it only leaves me wanting more juice. Literally, I would love some juice right. Grape would be nice.
Anyways, back to commenting on the surprising power of computers these days. I use a late model Imac G5, it is about two years old and cruises pretty well (expect when I tell it to go and adjust a few hundred photos in one shot). I have Final Cut Pro, but since I haven’t really taken the time to learn it and am pretty thick I can work faster in iMovie. Which really gets the job done for quick and dirty projects like this.
Remind me to take a class in Final Cut sometime please.
Update:
iMovie crashed on me. A solid year of using OSX and this trusty little guy and it tanked. Sure, ok, the file I was working with was like 10 gigs (I have no idea how that happened) and I was having it do a lot of steps at once…but still. Weak.