- Joined
- May 6, 2005
- Messages
- 155
- Reaction score
- 4
- Points
- 18
- Location
- Poughquag, NY
- Your Mac's Specs
- IBM PCjr, 4.77 MHz Intel 8088, 640K RAM, 5.25" Floppy, Basic Cartridge, PC DOS 2.11
When I purchased my iMac, the sales person was going on and on about iLife and Digital Photography etc. I assumed he was just giving me the sales pitch and I really didn't pay attention to him. For the most part I only use my home system for Finances (Quicken), Music (iTunes), e-Mail (Hotmail), and Web, so for the, the switch from PC to Mac was rather easy.
After playing around on the Mac for a few weeks, I will agree with the salesman that owning this system has completely changed the way I use home computers and work with my digital media.
In the past, I would basically just create a new folder in My Pictures and dump all my photo's from that vacation in there. Maybe edit a few, and maybe print a few, and that's about it.
In the past 2 weeks, I have taken my last group of vacation photos from a cruise I took in April. Made a 30 Min screen show set to music with them in iPhoto, exported the Movies to iMovie HD where I created 1 large movie with Chapters, and exported to iDVD. Took the video's from my Video Camera, edited them, and added titles, etc. and exported to the same iDVD. Customized the iDVD Theme with music, pictures, etc and burned a copy of it. It looked so good my wife got mad at me b/c she thought I hired someone to do it. Total time from start to finish = 3 Hours (not including the rendering/burning time)
Then I created a Book in iPhoto using some of the same pictures, organized it and customized it using one of the easy layouts that they have, and purchased it using the Buy Book button. I then took the PDF file of the album and hosted it on my .Mac Homepage to share with my family and friends. Does it get any easier than that?
I have never dreamed of being this creative with my digital images/video in the past and I must say that my iMac and iLife has completely changed my home computing experience. After seening the output from my iMac, some of my family and friends were som impressed, it looks like they are going to switch too. And to think, when I first purchased the iMac all I wanted to do was uninstall this "useless" application that I will probably never use.
Thank You,
Ray
After playing around on the Mac for a few weeks, I will agree with the salesman that owning this system has completely changed the way I use home computers and work with my digital media.
In the past, I would basically just create a new folder in My Pictures and dump all my photo's from that vacation in there. Maybe edit a few, and maybe print a few, and that's about it.
In the past 2 weeks, I have taken my last group of vacation photos from a cruise I took in April. Made a 30 Min screen show set to music with them in iPhoto, exported the Movies to iMovie HD where I created 1 large movie with Chapters, and exported to iDVD. Took the video's from my Video Camera, edited them, and added titles, etc. and exported to the same iDVD. Customized the iDVD Theme with music, pictures, etc and burned a copy of it. It looked so good my wife got mad at me b/c she thought I hired someone to do it. Total time from start to finish = 3 Hours (not including the rendering/burning time)
Then I created a Book in iPhoto using some of the same pictures, organized it and customized it using one of the easy layouts that they have, and purchased it using the Buy Book button. I then took the PDF file of the album and hosted it on my .Mac Homepage to share with my family and friends. Does it get any easier than that?
I have never dreamed of being this creative with my digital images/video in the past and I must say that my iMac and iLife has completely changed my home computing experience. After seening the output from my iMac, some of my family and friends were som impressed, it looks like they are going to switch too. And to think, when I first purchased the iMac all I wanted to do was uninstall this "useless" application that I will probably never use.
Thank You,
Ray