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Billy Newman Photo Podcast | 264 Exploring Smith Rock: High Desert Hiking, Camping & Advanced 360 Photography Techniques

Billy Newman Photo Podcast | 264 Exploring Smith Rock: High Desert Hiking, Camping & Advanced 360 Photography Techniques

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 Show Notes for the Billy Newman Photo Podcast View links at wnp.app Explore outdoor photography, technical media projects, stories from backcountry expeditions, and insights from the creative process with Billy Newman—photographer, author, and podcast producer. Connect, learn, and follow along. Quick Links: Portfolio: billynewmanphoto.com/photographs Studio: wphoto.co Posts: billynewmanphoto.com/posts Photo Books: billynewmanphoto.com/books Amazon Author: amazon.com/author/billynewman Podcast Episodes: Billy Newman Photo Podcast: Listen here Relax with Rain: Listen here Night Sky Podcast: Listen here Connect With Billy Newman: Email: billy@billynewmanphoto.com Instagram: @billynewman LinkedIn: billynewmanphoto X (Twitter): @billynewman Recommended Books: Landscape Portfolio (PDF): Download Black and White Photography (PDF): Download Working With Film (PDF): Download Western Overland Excursion (PDF): Download Support the Podcast & Photography Projects: Make a sustaining financial donation: Visit Support Page Podcast Forward: The Billy Newman Photo Podcast blends real-world outdoor adventure, technical insight, and practical photography tips. [Music] Hello and thank you very much for listening to this episode of the Billy Newman Photo Podcast. I appreciate you guys tuning into these echo audio files that I’m putting out there and it’s kind of interesting putting out some content for the echo devices. I really appreciate it. I like audio editing and rendering stuff and I’ve been doing a lot of that. I’m trying to do more of it on a Mac Pro and the Mac Pro right now is one of the Mac attached computers that has come out years ago. Really, it’s still quite expensive and it’s really servicing what I need out of it quite well and I’m happy about that because the price has gone down a bit. But if you buy it straight from Apple, it’s still really quite expensive. The computer of the Mac Pro, I think came out in 2013 and computer years, 2013 to 2018, is really nearly ancient. But kind of my lucky start is I just got a Mac Pro. I think it’s still priced around $2,000 to purchase even a used one, which originally I guess spec’d out as it was would have been around $4,000 or $5,000. So you’re still getting $2,000 worth of computing out of it. I suppose. I hope, I think maybe in some cases the iMac, when it’s more fully spec’d out, the more modern like 2017 iMac, I think was outspecking some of the things that the Mac Pro was doing. But really with the, I think the Xeon processor and the graphics cards that you’re working with, at least on the Mac and Touch Side, that’s really one of your only options to work with higher level graphics cards and higher level. Well, I think your only option to work with the Xeon processor. But it’s been really interesting trying to do some professional rendering and editing. What I’m trying to go through right now and do is, is I have a ton of .mov files, 10 of .mkvm4vmks files. I don’t know. Also, AVI files, all these different file formats, these MPaG containers that I don’t really understand that came with that with some other version or some raw file from a camera, something like that. But that’s all to say that these are pretty big video files that are maybe sometimes uncompressed or compressed poorly or maybe not compressed to a version of something that is useful for me to use and definitely not 10 years, 20 years down the line. So what I’m going to try and do is work with some program, maybe handbrake, maybe final cut, maybe I’ll go crazy and use a terminal program called ffmpag. We’ll talk more about that later. But I want to try and go through and take all of these video files and convert them over to an MP4, like some more standard high-def MP4 that’s correct for that type of video that it is. And I want to try and get rid of all these 3GP video files from a cell phone. I want to convert all that video out to some more native MPaG format. And so I’m going to try and use one of these programs to do it. But to do that on my laptop, even a pretty modern laptop, it’s quite a bit of rendering to get all those frames out in HD. And so what I’m going to try and do is crunch all of that stuff out by using this Mac Pro. And I hope that I can save a lot of time by trying to render it all out through there. I saved a ton of time rendering out video while I was trying to stitch together my 360 video. Oh my gosh, it was enormously slow on my Mac laptop. And really it blew through it with consuming quite a bit of time. It still took me a week to render out all the video. But I was able to do it on this workhorse Mac Pro. So it was kind of cool. It was interesting. Definitely not breaking any ground with thinking about Mac Pro’s. But I’m thinking about the Pro line of computers. Like they have the iMac Pro, which is the fastest, best system for Mac processing in a pro environment right now. And I kind of think ...
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