Since day one of my computer experience, the PC has always been my weapon of choice for my everyday computer needs. I’ll say for the past year or so I always managed to find myself ending up at the Apple store. I have always liked and respected Apple computers because of its great ability to handle video, graphics and audio mixing, but was never able to afford it at the time. Well, this past week my wife decided to surprise me on my birthday by buying me something that I had my eyes on for a long time: The Apple MacBook Pro. All I kept hearing in my mind when she showed me the bag was that song from Charlie Brown’s Christmas “Christmastime is Here”. She REALLY got me this year.
Anyway, I wasted no time taking my new computer out of the box. After all the initial set up steps, I was ready to start my Apple experience. The one feature that immediately caught my attention was that it immediately found my in-house network without any special configurations. Everything else was just as I had experienced in the Apple store–Great.
Among the pre-installed software, this computer comes with video editing software, DVD creation software (giving you the ability to add the same type of menus you find on professional DVDs), and audio creation software. The great thing is that all three of these programs have the ability to share your video project seamlessly.
I wanted to see just how easy it was to work with video with my MacBook Pro, so I jumped right into my first video project: Cleaning up my wedding video. With all the other large expenses associated with our wedding, we simply did not have enough left over to hire a videographer, so we had one of yo’ cuzzins do it for us.
Bless his heart 
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Earlier, I had already converted our video from VHS to DVD. From there I was able to extract the video straight from the DVD to the MacBook Pro. Now, I could add music, transitions, titles, etc. The result? Simply AWESOME! Now I have a professional-grade recording of our history that I can pass on to our kids. Eventually I will move up to Final Cut Pro (an industry-standard software package for those who work with video), but for now I am having fun with iDVD, iMovie, and GarageBand (the three programs I have been refering to). My next “fun” project will be to record my son’s soccer games, interview some of his teammates, throwing it all together and sell it to the parents (yeah, its fun, but a brotha’s gotz to get paid).
These capabilities will also prove invaluable to our home-based business as we can now incorporate training videos for our customers.
I’m glad I made the jump.
If you are a Apple user, please feel free to drop me some pointers or weblinks that are helpful for someone like me who is just starting out.
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