Mactabulous!
May. 23rd, 2003 01:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaPC users might want to skip this post, it's all about how fabulous my Mac is.
I so totally love this machine! Yesterday I downloaded iStopMotion and played with it. It wasn't as good as Frame Thief but it is freeware and it has cool voice-activated frame-grabbing. meaning that I could in theory pixelate myself into animation with no assistant, which is amusing. Anyhow, sticking with FrameThief for now. :)
So... Crissa bought me a DVD yesterday. Fritz Lang's 1927 classic, 'Metroplis'. fantastic movie. I remember how bad the first print of it I saw looked. The restoration people have done a beautiful job restoring this movie and you really start to get a feel for how incredible it was when it was made. Lang was a genius with film. Every shot is framed and lit equisitely, every camera angle and movement is very deliberate and artistic. Even the titles are made so that they add to the feel of the movie. The text takes on shapes, scrolls up or down or sideways or crossfades, whatever fits the mood and tone of the current point in the movie. This movie is just fantastically made!
So... I wanted to watch the movie, I wanted to animate. So... I popped the DVD into the Mac. I love how Macs just automatically recognize different things and will react accordingly. Like open the DVD player for a DVD or set you up to write to a CD-R if you stick one in the same drive, or automatically open up iPhoto when you plug in a camera on USB. It's just so cool. :)
So anyhow... It plays DVDs! :) It plays DVDs full screen with Premiere running in classic mode in the background and Internet Explorer, Trebuchet, Terminal, and Frame Thief running too. It popped twice during the whole movie. My display is set at 1600x1200 BTW. O_O Anyhow. 'm happy. I so totally lurve the cube!
And Stacey! :) (That goes without saying though, probably)
I so totally love this machine! Yesterday I downloaded iStopMotion and played with it. It wasn't as good as Frame Thief but it is freeware and it has cool voice-activated frame-grabbing. meaning that I could in theory pixelate myself into animation with no assistant, which is amusing. Anyhow, sticking with FrameThief for now. :)
So... Crissa bought me a DVD yesterday. Fritz Lang's 1927 classic, 'Metroplis'. fantastic movie. I remember how bad the first print of it I saw looked. The restoration people have done a beautiful job restoring this movie and you really start to get a feel for how incredible it was when it was made. Lang was a genius with film. Every shot is framed and lit equisitely, every camera angle and movement is very deliberate and artistic. Even the titles are made so that they add to the feel of the movie. The text takes on shapes, scrolls up or down or sideways or crossfades, whatever fits the mood and tone of the current point in the movie. This movie is just fantastically made!
So... I wanted to watch the movie, I wanted to animate. So... I popped the DVD into the Mac. I love how Macs just automatically recognize different things and will react accordingly. Like open the DVD player for a DVD or set you up to write to a CD-R if you stick one in the same drive, or automatically open up iPhoto when you plug in a camera on USB. It's just so cool. :)
So anyhow... It plays DVDs! :) It plays DVDs full screen with Premiere running in classic mode in the background and Internet Explorer, Trebuchet, Terminal, and Frame Thief running too. It popped twice during the whole movie. My display is set at 1600x1200 BTW. O_O Anyhow. 'm happy. I so totally lurve the cube!
And Stacey! :) (That goes without saying though, probably)
