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In the spirit of of the Shining Preview Remix, Chris Rule has remixed Mary Poppins into a horror movie trailer. I love these exercises, not only because they are funny, but also because they show the power of editing and soundtrack. This kind of thing would be a great project for a budding filmmaker.

This is weird. I’m not sure what Apple is buying. They already have a pretty good single-user DAM story. The market for the workgroup and workflow stuff is pretty tiny. The videoripper isn’t worth purchasing a company for.

What is Apple going after?

proximity

NELS CLINE – Tech Talk

A great page from an interesting sound sculptor talking about the tools he uses live and in the studio.

AppleInsider | Parallels preps major update to Windows virtualization software

This is oh-so-very-cool. I have to run bootcamp on my mac book pro because I need to be using the full power of the GPU. This won’t completely obliviate that need, but it will mean that I won’t need to install XP twice on my little MBP so that I can pop into Outlook or IE if I need to without restarting. With the new version of Parallels, you can use your bootcamp partition as the root drive of your XP Parallels session. Also cool is that they’ll support other OSes nicely, which means you can drop a linux install on there too easily. This will be awesome for web designers because they won’t need to buy extra machines to validate stuff on. This may even get me back to installing some windows or liinux audio and video stuff again. There is a lot of freeware we mac folk miss out on.

I think this virtualization stuff is progressing exactly the way I want to see it. Next step is to find out how well the Macintels run Vista…

I wonder how long until either Apple or Microsoft buys Parallel Inc. The fact that they are located in Redmond probably speaks more to the fact that they are probably well staffed by former Microsofties than that they made their plan to be acquired at the beginning.

[via Gizmodo]

Griffin Technology: iTalk Pro – Stereo Mic for iPod

As I wrote earlier, the new iPods can finally record in CD Quality audio without having to put Linux on them. Finally, there is something that lets you take advantage of it! With an external mic-in to boot. I’ve been waiting for the widescreen iPods to update my 4G, but this might push me over the edge…

Like John Nack, I am super into constructivist-era photomontage. I was super excited to find out that We Make Money Not Art had a gallery up on Flickr!
Flickr: we-make-money-not-art’s photos tagged with sovietmontage

Sites that Pay for Web Video: From CinemaTech

I’m always interested in finding ways to figure out how to monetize content, this is a great resource.

Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg born today in 1874.

Always check your recordings…

What kind of audio program doesn’t recognize external audio hardware?

Soundtrack Pro is pretty much a rip-off of Adobe Audition, including its single-track edit/multi-track record interface. One benefit would be its integration with Final Cut Pro, if there was any integration with FCP. I’m doing a soundtrack for a video project right now and I’d like to just product some tracks in Soundtrack Pro’s multitrack UI and them bring them directly back into FCP, but of course that is impossible in a direct way (like opening a FCP project in Soundtrack Pro). In the end, I had to export the video out of FCP and import it into Soundtrack Pro. Then I found my next problem, Soundtrack Pro doesn’t recognize my Firewire Audio interface, it just recognizes the built-in audio interfaces. That is just ridiculous. Even FCP recognizes my Firewire interface. Finally, I just gave up and imported the video file into a Cubase project. I’ll have to generate full-length stem mixes I guess and import them manually back into FCP, which will give me about the same level of integration that I was gonna get from Soundtrack Pro anyway, I guess.