I love my PowerBook.

This year for Christmas (*shhhhhhhh* don't tell anyone!) I've been drafted into converting a bunch of family pictures and home movies into a DVD for the in-laws' extended families. Actually, both my wife and I have been drafted into doing this, and I haven't had the time to pull it all off myself. Plus, it's pointless for me to go through all the in-laws family pictures, cuz I don't know half the people or when the events took place, so I'm basically pointless in sorting/organizing/arranging the pics.

At any rate, she's been scanning pictures like crazy and I've started capturing video, editing it in iMovie, and putting it all together in iDVD. I've now got less than two weeks to get it all done, but most of the source material has been acquired, so it's now down to just the creative process.

I've got a video capture card on my PC, and I've used it before to do a number of things, but the software I've been using on the PC is just crazy to use, especially now that I can compare it to iMovie and iDVD. I have used Adobe Premier in the past, and it's still my favorite movie editing software because it's so powerful in what it can do, but for the very straightforward process of putting together this project for the family, iMovie has been more than up to the task. And it's been incredibly easy to use, even for a guy who doesn't read the manuals!

So, enough blogging for now. Back to the editing room. I've got to put together an ensemble piece of extended family from 1990 so I can move on to the next set of clips.

I love my PowerBook.