Hello, I'm a Mac...

So I've had my new Mac for right at two months now. Yes it was expensive and yes it is a long story about how I came to get it. But let's move past that and just accept the fact that I do.

What I'm getting at is I've finally had time to play with some of my new software... such as iDVD. I'm trying to teach myself as I do with most computer programs but for some reason I'm not really getting it. I think. I might be. I'd just be unaware of it.

I just threw together some video clips in iMovie so now I'm attempting to let them make their permanent mark on the world in the form of a soon-to-be-obselete DVD. Actually I just think it's funny that I finally have the capability to produce a DVD at home yet somehow I can't manage to figure out how to do it.

When I bought Final Cut Studio it came with DVD Studio Pro. I kind of learned how to work that at my internship last year and I'm feeling like I'd have better luck there. Plus this DVD encoding bullshit (pardon) takes forever. So the way I figure it, you pretty much ought to have everything set in your head before you go into something like this.

Information I could've used at the outset.

Unflinching though, I'll trudge on through. And I suppose at some point I'll let you know if this thing comes to fruition. It'd be nice. Then I could confidently say that I know my new Mac inside and out. Until then, I'm afraid I'm a mere novice.

Truth be told, you know, this is the first Mac I've ever owned. I've been a PC person all my life. That is to say I've only owned PCs. I've worked on Macs for just as long. For every PC I used at home, there was a Mac I used at school or work. So it's not foreign to me.

In fact, I rather prefer it in some aspects to my PC. For one thing, it handles video much better. And that's one of my primary needs for it. What's cool is in the last two months since I've bought it, it's started making me my money back. A couple of small editing jobs here and there... in no time, the thing will have paid for itself.

Or that's the plan at least.

Oh and about the title, I love those commercials. They're hilarious. And that's because they're true.