Nate and I were working tonight on a video for his class. He did a report on construction and he and I decided we'd do a video as a visual aid to go along with his presentation. We went into a neighborhood with houses in different states of being built and video taped him talking in front of each. It went pretty well until we got to the brick layers and decided it'd be good to do an interview. None of the guys spoke english. We finally found a guy and Nate did a great job interviewing him, but you can barely hear him over the salsa music playing in the background.

Here's the cool part. I came back, hooked the camera up to the mac and it automatically went through, pulled in all of the clips, separated them out and made it very easy to edit them. All of this being done on a 256MB 1.2GHz Mac Mini. A PC with the same requirements would have been brought to it's knees doing video. Not this. It cranked through the video and Nate was able to create the flow of the video, add transitions and effects. Beautiful. If only I'd bought the Superdrive for the Mac, to burn the DVD's out. Oh well, I can do that on my PC. The Mac may not have a lot of good software, but some of what it has is good, especially the OS.