GarageBand, iMovie & YouTube

Hey everyone,

I've had my white MacBook 13.3", 2.16Ghz, 2GB RAM and 160GB HDD, for about two weeks now, and quite frankly, im LOVING IT!

Check this p'review out of my new MacBook:

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I've started playing around with the various applications from iLife '08, in particular, GarageBand and iMovie.

GarageBand

GarageBand is incredible! I've dont have much experience with music creating software before, but i was blown away with how easy it is to record and make music. Apple have done a fine job in including this as a standard application on Macs. As I am in a couple of bands (one of which recently broke up), i used the MacBook and GarageBand to record a few songs during practice and I was amazed at how well the ridiculously small microphone picked up every sound including vocals, without distortion.

Go visit my bands if you like:
Poly&theStatics

The Honey Pies

iMovie

iMovie is great. Although it took me a little while to understand how to do everything, it was relatively easy to jump straight in and create movies. I would've liked to know how to reduce the file size of projects even more than what options iMovie provides, but its no big deal really. I used to use Microsoft Movie Maker which allows you to choose how small you want the file (sacrificing quality at the same time). I liked this option because having a slow broadband connection, it takes ages to upload to YouTube having a 80Mb+ movie.

I also found it interesting that you cant drag and drop/import .avi files into iMovie unless you update iPhoto via iMovie. This might not make much sense to you but I dont know how else I can word it.

...which brings me to the next topic.

MacBook Reviews on YouTube

I have recently uploaded a few YouTube videos reviewing the MacBook. I will be posting regular videos so I can help anyone out there who may be considering buying one of these awesome machines.

Here's my YouTube home page: WAYMASSIVE on YouTube

MacBook Review


MacBook Review (quick update)


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waymassive

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