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I’ve been recording music on my Mac for the better part of 20 years. Once I learned that I could combine my love of music with computers, it became my favorite way to spend my free time. Sometimes I would record individual songs. Entire collections of songs. Half-baked songs that never went anywhere. It didn’t matter. It was always a fun outlet for my creativity. Whenever I create marketing videos for various Bombing Brain projects or my own apps, my favorite part has always been making the background…

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Extras, Indeed

While everyone else in the community is still losing its mind over the battery bump, I thought I’d offer a change of pace and criticize something a little more concerning about Apple’s recent endeavors. It didn’t take much effort to find something less controversial, at least. Let’s take, for instance, the experience of watching iTunes Extras material on an iPad. iTunes Extras are like DVD bonus features for the movies you buy on iTunes. Some movies only offer an alternate commentary track. Others get quite elaborate,…

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Anatomy of a Product Video Part 10

This is a series of posts about the making of my marketing video for Fin. You can see the other parts of the series by following the links below: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 This is part ten, the final in a series detailing the process of making a product marketing video for my app, Fin. I hope to inspire others to try and make these kinds of videos for their own products, as I think they are pretty essential for selling apps to customers.…

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Anatomy of a Product Video Part 9

This is a series of posts about the making of my marketing video for Fin. You can see the other parts of the series by following the links below: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 This is part nine in a series detailing the process of making a product marketing video for my app, Fin. I want to inspire others to try and make these kinds of videos for their own products, as I think they are pretty essential for selling apps to customers. Music I’…

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Anatomy of a Product Video Part 8

This is a series of posts about the making of my marketing video for Fin. You can see the other parts of the series by following the links below: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 This is part eight of a series detailing the process I used to make a product marketing video for my app, Fin. I hope I can inspire others to try and make these kinds of videos for their own products, as I think they are pretty essential for selling apps to…

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