I got some sort of thing going on with my stomach. I think I got it from Elena this past weekend as she was having tummy trouble and so were Joe and Amber last week. Oh great, anyway it's a real pain in the ass and that's both figuratively and literally. I was going to run for 75 minutes yesterday but ended up with just over an hour after a mid run pitstop. My stomach was just in knots the entire run. ***WARNING NEXT SENTENCE CONTAINS GRAPHIC INFORMATION*** I just can't seem to keep any food down, it goes in and it comes right back out in about 10 minutes.***END OF WARNING*** I'm worried that I'm not getting enough calories. Plus the humid weather and staying hydrated is a pain. Hopefully it will gone soon and that my immune system is full kick virus/bacteria butt mode.
I slept in today. Woohoo!! I decided to skip swimming for a couple of reasons. First, I was planning on just a swim off day. Second, with this stomach bug I was up 3 times during the night to take care of business so I didn't get much sleep anyways. Oh well, it was worth a shot.
I might try to get me a cheap Mac computer. Yes, I said Mac. I saw the cool video editing that Joe was able to do with a movie he took of Elena's karate sparring that I might just go the Mac route. The only thing I ever did on my PC was play games and I haven't done that in ages. I just hear from friends that they are so easy to deal with and my PC with XP is just pissing me off. I mean the thing takes forever to boot up and shut down. It's storing all my pictures/videos/music on it but that's about it. I have my Polar software for tracking my rides but I rarely use it. I'm not sure if the Verizon music store works on Mac but now with Amazon and other music services offering DRM free music I won't be using the music store anyway for new stuff. Plus if I go with a small Mac laptop its just more convenient overall. I know nothing about Macs though so we'll just have to see how they sell on Ebay.
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for the editing...#1, and I am sure you already know this, but if not, here you go; make heavy use of an external drive because no matter how big your hard drive...it doesn't do the job. A smaller amount of gb on an external will work so much better than even double the amount an in internal. I have yet to see why but that has been my experience and also what I have seen in every book I have read on the subject...which I have been researching pretty intensively for a couple months now. External hard drive, max amount of Ram and you are set whether pc or MAC.
ReplyDeleteMost pro editors do prefer the MAC and recent ones come with Final Cut, a short version. That is the Cadiallac of video editing. To get the best you either need that or Adobe Premiere...but Adobe in this case is French for "muy expensivo", > $1000 for the program. Just sayin'.
With that said, neither Final Cut nor Adobe is particularly intuitive, you will need to spend some time learning the controls. It has a pretty steep learning curve and may lead to complaints from neighbors in regard to numbers and volume of profanities.
If you want a less powerful but still incredible package that is much more intuitive you can stick with a PC and get Magix 11 or 12, a year or 2 old, for like 10 bucks on Ebay. 16 tracks, has all the cuts, fades, effects, transitions, and more you will ever want. Also has an extremely fine-tune trimmer that is so easy to use I have edited some pretty intensive high-volume image change 4 minute videos in less than 2 hours. And that is with getting it down to the exact fram I want. They also have all the other keys like color correction, cropping, etc.
Just something to think about.