Garbage in, Garbage out

Be it video or audio, Pro Tools or Aperture, the best results are always obtained when you start out with the best materials, plans, or signals. In my case, I am referring to the Canon XSi (replacing my XTi). These cameras have a memory option that you can set up color/lighting scenarios. It can retain six at a time, but they can each be adjusted on the fly from the onboard controls or manipulated from the computer. I am beginning to take advantage of this feature by the post production corrections I am making in Aperture. Until I can move into the professional class of photographers and afford a new Sekonic color/light meter, I think this technique will suffice. Perhaps it will work for you as well.

The same thing can be said of how I am using the digital audio out of the Mac Pro to feed my Digi002. The sound is as clean and and rich as the original signal. No copper lines to cross interfere and introduce noise into the mix. Digital out from my Mac Pro directly into the Digital in and I am sending multiple channels of sound all at once, instead of having to use 8 separate cables.

New Hadron Collider (my personal super collider)

I just replaced my beloved dual processing Power Mac G4 with the out of this world (self contained super computer) 8 core Harpertown Mac Pro. The only thing it isn't, is portable (w/ 4 HD and 8GB of RAM it weighs around 50 lbs). This is "world get out of my way" and let me develop class computer. They will have to think of new superlatives for this device because you quickly run out, in all the known human languages. I certainly won't be getting much sleep out there for the next 3 years or so. Now that I have the power to control time and space, I think I will develop a cure for cancer, end world hunger, create everlasting peace, and fill young minds with hope first. Welcome to the new Matrix.