| | so we're migrating everything over to the mac platform here at church because pro presenter is so much stabler than mediashout (our presentation software) - last thursday we tried playing a simple video through mediashout and guess what happened? yep, it totally crashed. i watched as our tech director and red-faced volunteer tried to rectify the problem midstream - bad times. but apparently pro presenter is bullet-proof - and it runs only on mac.
a while back, i attended an integrity conference - the second mid-day session seemed like a prolonged infomercial, but the most entertaining part of it all was watching the mediashout and pro presenter folks tout their products. it was like watching the pc vs mac commercials - the MS guy was old and dumpy, the pro presenter dude was young and hip.
and so the switch begins. and it began with me first getting a macbook pro, in anticipation of one of our most talented volunteers out for the count because of pregnancy (good for her!) - who would make the fantastic vids she makes? i guess, me. or at least in some part me - i need to know the ins and outs of it. and it was stinking simple with imovie (though all imovies have a certain look and feel to them because of the canned text... it's harder to sync up, more powerful software is probably required). also, i was and am intrigued by ableton live and reason - complicated sequencing software that produces all the whirrrss, beeps, and clicks on tracks made by, say, david crowder or fee. since we already play with click on sunday mornings, it would be an easy transition to start using backing tracks.
the learning curve wasn't as high as i thought for the reason and ableton and the best part of it all? ableton allows me to drop the tracks made in reason into a multiple channel output. that way, our TD can mix beeps, whirs, loops, etc. separately while we play. instead of sending him a stereo signal, i'm sending him five or six different virtual instruments - and it makes for a very full and lush sounding mix.
in the famous words of danny chai, "no one cares." which means for me, i hope everyone reads this all the way through.
but the mac has opened up whole new avenues of possibility for music and video - you can do all these things on a pc, sure (except for pro presenter), but i'm using a ton of space and a ton of ram - i need something pretty powerful. i guess if you're going to drop a couple grand on a laptop workstation, might as well be on a shiny, uber cool macbook pro.
didn't mean for this to be a long-winded advert, but oh well. the mbp is THE best for the artsy types. i guess, i'm semi-artsy.
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| | Posted 3/8/2008 8:20 AM - 135 Views - 4 eProps - 3 comments
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