Well.. I figure I ought to try and post something before bed.. though I’m a little out of it.. I should be in bed now.

There’s events going on that bare speaking of..  On just how things are kind of progressing.

As I finally get around to sorta filling out this computer.. that is getting real software on it.. This here Mac Pro.. I can tell you this thing is bad ass as hell..  Mind you I’m still coming from a G4 perspective here.. but omg… I was goofing around with Photoshop open.. while at the same time I had Final Cut doing a batch capture… something I’m still not 100% on.. but basically you put a tape into your video camera.. you connect your camera up to your computer, and Final Cut controls your camera.. you go through the tape and select sections of the tape that you’d like to capture.. selecting in and out points.. and when you’re done, you tell it to do a batch capture.. and it brings that video onto your drives.

I’ve probably explained this, but just incase I haven’t.. My Mac Pro has 4 drives in it..  Two are set up as RAIDs.. basically you hook up two drives to work as one, and get about twice the performance out of those drives as you would from a single drive.. It has the unfortunate problem that if ether drive dies.. you loose all the data on that drive.. thus we call it a “scary raid.” I’m hoping that Blue Ray HD comes to the Mac soon.. primarily I think it’s an issue of the OS, so we’ll be waiting for the next OS to stop buy… and at that point… why Blue Rays will more then likely come to the Mac. You can currently buy Internal Blue Ray drives.. but I don’t know what the whole story is on this.. the problem would be that you wouldn’t be able to watch Blue Ray movies until this issue is worked out.. 

All of which is a bit of a side story.. I should go so far as to say that I’m waiting for Blue Ray HD burners.. because they would allow you to burn a huge amount of data to a Blue Ray disk.. which would give you a means of backing stuff up.. once my RAID fills up.. its close to one TB worth of storage on that drive.. I have another 500 GB drive where I intend to put stuff once it’s finished..

So we are digitizing via Final Cut, fooling around in Photoshop.. and then to make things even more fun.. playing a computer game.. all at the same time.. more or less.. and still I’m only using a small portion of the processor power.. which is a little on the mind blowing side for me. I mean you feel a little as if you’re using multiple computers at once..

I suppose this sorta opens the topic.. of just what is up now. As I think I’ve said else where.. I want to give myself about 6 months to play around with all this new technology.. before I start having high hopes of actually producing anything..  

I’m adding a huge amount of complexity to my world.. a huge amount to try and learn.. and hoping to learn it all in a ridiculously short period of time.. I mean.. what I’m talking about here is.. between Final Cut Studio, Adobe CS3 Web Premium… and then add to that Digital Performer.. Ableton Live.. Komplete 5 and Kore 2.. while I know my way around all this software, to some degree, as is.. the amount ahead of me to learn.. why that’s probably more then 6 months of learning… and then add to that After Effects, and some kind of serious 3D graphics tools.. 

Oh, well I’m too damn tired to try and get through this. So we’ll leave this as is.

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