It’s so hot right now! By that I mean the weather!
I am so glad I got the new mic… Even though I don’t have the proper set up for it. I tested it quite a bit the other day and found out that 1) I can’t be touching/holding the mic/moving it around otherwise there will be a lot of noise. 2) I had to change the cable to a rode cable, which I obviously had to buy since I ain’t got no mic. Because the free one that came with the Seiran mic gave a lot of background static kind of noise. 3) It’s still noisier than if I off the fan and film with airpods or even this new mic… But this time it’s not the wind noise as in wind blowing at the mic noise, but the fan noise. Will have to do an additional noise processing step I guess. But at least there’s an app in the app store for that.
I wonder how the pros do it… And if the process is any easier on a laptop than the iPad. I mean, the macbook pro is a beast for video editing with final cut pro. But will it make *my* life easier? For one I think the learning curve will be steep… And right now I won’t be able to fully leverage on all it’s features. But I keep having a nagging feeling that in my young and ambitious days, I *might* have paid for final cut or something of that sort… But I never did use it. Maybe it wasn’t the ‘pro’ version or something? I don’t remember in detail anymore, but I did remember looking at final cut pro and being very tempted to buy it…. But the price, obviously, put me off. As much as I knew what a great software it was, it’s just the fact that I was a poor kid back then. Still is but ya know…
And the thing is that, I don’t have an Apple laptop now to even check… I do have an iMac sitting in front of me but, it’s so slow, so much so that I’ve not used it in years. The power cable is unplugged, and that’s a huge mountain of mess to get through to if I were to try and turn it on… Plus the mouse and keyboard have been put away because I needed the space for filming…
So yeah…
I guess if my sis gets a macbook then I’ll borrow it for a bit to log in and check. I can’t seem to be able to check it with a windows laptop or on a website… Or even with my iPad or iPhone. What a bummer.
Oh wait. Ok I found it in settings… But there doesn’t seem to be a search button… I’d have to scroll through it one by one, year by year, this is crazy. Sigh. I’ll try and see if there’s an easier way to do this… I can see it on the iTunes but I still have to scroll through things one by one…
But for now, the iPad Pro is all I have anyway. This will affect my purchase of the next device but… I don’t have the money (after buying a new phone earlier this year!!! Expensive!!!) and the iPad is also serving me well for now, and after getting a new keyboard it’s working great… I don’t see any signs of it aging at all. It’s not getting slower or anything of that sort. Battery life may not be the best anymore but I edit at home 99.99% of the time anyway so that’s not an issue. And it still lasts pretty long, I can bring it out to work and take a few meetings on it and still have more than 70% left. Only if I’m doing more extensive stuff like erm… Watching YouTube videos lol. That seems to suck battery life out of the iPad real quick.
Finally, back to the topic of the weather… So yes. Really glad that I can now have the fan blowing at me while filming. The weather is too hot to not have that, really. It’s 33°C right now. Indoors, out of the sun. Temperatures are expected to reach a high of 35°C today… I am not looking forward to the hotter days that are still to come >< Ok. Shall end this here. Seeya on YouTube! Update: I give up on scrolling through all those years of purchases. My wrist is hurting from scrolling on the trackpad... I'll just wait till I have access to a mac and then borrow it to login and check... Like I'd just be able to go to the app page and if I've bought it before it'll be free to download, if not it'll cost $$$. Wonder if I could do it at the Apple store lol.