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I may know a bit about some stuff, but I know quite little about lots of other stuff. Macs are no exception here.

Such self-deprecation and extreme modesty. Do I detect a pool hustler among us? :p


That’s why I defer to you, @Amethyst1, @eyoungren, and a few others around here who use these other model series, day in and out. :)

Ah, kind words but I think that "the gang" compliments each other quite nicely. ;)
 
Such self-deprecation and extreme modesty. Do I detect a pool hustler among us? :p


Nah. I just have a neurodivergent brain and live with a colossal volume of impostor syndrome.

Ah, kind words but I think that "the gang" compliments each other quite nicely. ;)

Good chemistry can’t be forced! :D
 
Some fun Mac-related images from the 2004 book "Attack of the Killer Video Book", a video production guide for kids and teens written by Mark Shulman and Hazlitt Krogg, and illustrated by Martha Newbigging. It's pretty Apple-oriented when it brings up digital post-production...
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On page 50, we can see a caricature of Mark Shulman showing a boy (Herbie) how to edit video on a computer, with a PowerMac G4 desktop of some kind hooked up to a generic CRT monitor. Page 51 displays an iBook G4 running the iMovie editing software of the time. The book really takes advantage of being published and read later than it was originally written; one of my favorites is the tip about Firewire here, saying "By the time you read this, this could be ancient history." (Though FireWire didn't really start to become "ancient history" until the early 2010s when Thunderbolt pretty much replaced it.)

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On page 53 you have a girl using the iBook G4 to print out a title for them to film with a camcorder (since this book also suggests you may also edit your video not using a computer but with a VCR or something else analog).

This book was revised in 2012 with more updated information, removing the idea of editing video using a VCR and implying that it will definitely be digitally edited, along with the likelihood of shooting your video not just on a camcorder, but possibly a point-and-shoot still camera capable of recording video or a Smartphone or even a tablet.
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The page showing how video can be transferred to the editing device. The Smartphone depicts an iPhone 4 or 4S, possibly an iPhone 5. The notebook/netbook image depicts what appears to be a polycarbonate white MacBook, 2006-09 style without a visible iSight webcam. The desktop image is a unibody iMac (2009-12).

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The computer editing illustration is revised here, replacing the PowerMac G4 with a PowerMac G5 tower, and the CRT monitor with what looks like a 2007-09 -style aluminum iMac, creating a strange redundancy effect (maybe the PowerMac is a spare machine they're not actually using at that time).

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Not sure about the laptop on the top of page 59, but it looks like it could be some kind of aluminum MacBook Pro, either a 2006-08 model or even a 2008-12 unibody model with a matte screen option (like my 2012 unibody 15" MacBook Pro), though it doesn't have a visible iSight webcam. Then on the bottom we have another 2006-09 white polycarbonate MacBook, again drawn without the webcam.

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On page 60, the kids are editing a video on what looks like an iMac G5 or older polycarbonate Intel iMac, running what looks similar to the pre-2007 versions of iMovie. (Funny enough, some of the editing tips mentioning iMovie specifically imply you are using iMovie '11 or later, mentioning stuff like the trailer creator, the Advanced Tools and the greenscreen/bluescreen feature.

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Here we see the girl using a white MacBook. Even though Apple wasn't making them anymore, in 2012 many people were still using them, especially college students. (I was using a mid-2009 white 13" MacBook myself that year!)
 
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The Smartphone depicts an iPhone 4 or 4S, possibly an iPhone 5.

That’s either a 4 or 4S since the camera is to the side of the earpiece grille rather than centered over it. The lack of antenna slots on the side means we can’t tell whether it’s a 4 or a CDMA 4 or 4S.
 
Here's some interesting Mac-related bits from the 2004 book "Make Your Own Hollywood Movie" by Ed Gaskell, a book I found very useful in my teenage years and was also partly one reason for fueling my eventual switch from Windows to Mac at the very end of the decade. It's been out of print for some time because it's mostly about making your own amateur Hollywood-style movie on a tape-based DV camcorder, unfortunately...
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In discussing the advantage of portability, they show a 17-inch PowerBook G4 laptop running Final Cut Pro, which was indeed popular with indie filmmakers at the time.

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The page spread about what computer you'll use to edit the video. Of course it seems to favor Macs over PCs, but says with the right hardware upgrades PCs can do just as good a job. Of course the "wallet-friendly" Macs are the more consumer-aimed models; at the time that book was published, the iMac G5 had already replaced the iMac G4, but it still cost the same as its predecessors, and as such was still perfect for digital moviemaking, and thus could even run Final Cut Pro pretty well (as the iBook and eMac couldn't handle FCP as well, but they could run Final Cut Express just fine if the user wanted to go beyond iMovie). Today that first line may as well be "Apple's wallet-friendly MacBook Air, Mac Mini and iMac computers are perfect for digital moviemaking. With Apple Silicon (M4) processors and at least 16 GB unified memory, they're fast enough for the job, they contain Thunderbolt inputs as standard..."

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Of course we get some praise on the old Final Cut Pro (in version 4 at the time), and in addition to showing some editing techniques on that (as well as Adobe Premiere 6.5 and Premiere Pro 7.0 on Windows XP), the book also has screenshots of Final Cut Express in action for a few such techniques.
 
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