Mac-o-rama

We recently bought an iMac for the studio. It's VERY cool and just 'works'. You know, you plug it in and it does stuff, without crashing, getting viruses and freaking out on you just when you least expect it.

It's quite a steep learning curve for both of us. I used to work on Macs a long time ago. The last time I touched one was a beige G3 with OS9 on it. Mark has never used one before. So to be confronted with OSX Leopard and a whole new way of doing stuff is a little daunting, but we're getting there.

The Mac is predominantly for use in the studio. We're not going to clog it up with unnecessary programmes or use it for email or anything like that. It'll run Logic Studio and that's what it'll do.

I'll also be using it for video work, as the Windows Movie Maker on my laptop just refuses to work any more. It crashes as soon as I add a file to a project. I never get as far as saving anything. I've spent too many hours getting frustrated and getting nowhere.

So for the past couple of days I've been playing around with iMovie and the result is something I've been wanting to do for months, which is a video for the Kizilok track, Torben Byl. I was hit with a sudden flash of inspiration one day, ages ago. I rushed out and bought a clockwork robot, just like I'd seen in my mind's-eye, took a bunch of video clips of it, and then couldn't do anything with them. Very frustrating.

But now I;ve finally been able to make my Torben Byl video, and I'm pleased with it. It makes me smile. Here it is.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kgWwNBLE6U