Return of the Mac

Golly. I’ve really done it now.

This little project started last fall, after the “Back to the Mac” Apple event. I collected a few Apple product videos, scoured YouTube for the highest quality PowerPC-era Mac commercials I could find – even asked Twitter where to find good, high-res files.

But I made do. And so here it is: a goofy, super geeky take on “Return of the Mack” – dropping the “k” of course.

What I like is that Apple videos make their machines fly – lots of swooping and dramatic angles and shadows. Tons of product rotations. All (except for the PowerMac G5 vid) against a brilliant white background.

For variety, I threw in some random stuff like the chip manufacturing shots. And some Apple reps doing some bad lip syncing.

Anyway. Glad to be done with it. It’s nothing like a pro job: there are still little hints of YouTubeness and window frames in there. But it’s just a fun little music video for us Macintosh geeks.

3 comments.

  1. Well, since nobody else has commented (yet)… this was pretty cool. Thanks.

  2. Thanks Jonathan!

  3. It’s awesome!
    Btw, for future video downloading/converting (instead of screen capture) try using Cmd-Opt-A in Safari (brings up an Activity window where you just Option-Doubleclick on the video file url (usually it’s the biggest file in there) and FFMpegX/Compressor for converting them into a format that iMovie can understand

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