I write this today on my Grandfathers 82nd birthday. Last week my Grandmother turned 80. I’m working with film reels that were made in the early 50′s. I have over 200 tracks in iTunes right now that were made before 1955.
I’m sure you would agree, that is quite a bit of old.
Besides all of that, it would appear that I have also turned into the family archivist. I have a Great Grandmother that is 99 and turns 100 in March. Consensus is that she might not make it to 100, so I have been gathering photos and scanning them to get ready for the eventual day when they will be needed for the funeral.
It’s not that I mind so much. It is that I am starting to forget what ‘new’ is like.
Maybe not entirely.
I have recently removed all of the old music from my iPod. I’m almost done dealing with the old video. I only have a few more old photos to go through and scan.
I’m hoping in a few weeks time I will be able to work on new stuff again. I’m getting pretty tired of the old.
If you are tired of reading about the old, click over to my flickr where I have posted a few new pictures (much like the one above).
The short version.
I wasn’t completely without Internet. I was able to ‘borrow’ a few cups from a neighbor to check emails and other important things. Now I have a ton of emails to go through, logs to check and I’m very afraid to open Net News Wire.
Oh yea, a little bit of speed boost too. Gotta love the FIoS
While you wait for more, if you haven’t already, check out my Flickr for some old pictures of yours truly.
Finally figured it out and things are moving along quite well. Have a new rig, for lack of a better term, setup for the import and editing process.
Here is what I’ve done and/or am doing.
Next step will be the edit and organization for burning to DVD. The way I’m planning to do it is to keep each separate in editing and exporting, and just burning a bunch of them to dvd with menu choices. I think it’s going to work out fine if not terribly time consuming.
…he says as he types this out on a HP Pavilion media center
Video sucks.
Ok, maybe that is a little harsh. How about video sucks on Windows or on a slow Mac?
I’ve been working on this practically all week. I’ve got the files encoded as .dv and as .wmv. I tried to do this on the Mac, but it just takes way to long. At least it finishes.
In Windows Movie Maker, the files will only save to about 30% and then it stops saying there isn’t enough hard drive space. What? I have 45GB of space available and you are only making a file that is 125MB in size. Double you tee eff windows?
Searching finds it might be a memory issue. Or a problem with the source files. Or a codec problem. Or a video problem. Or an incompatibility problem. You get the drift. At least I don’t feel bad in that there are others having this same exact problem, yet there isn’t a fix that works.
So (and this I dread) I am going to take the videos home and work on them there. Slow as my Mac is, I will get it done. Just so long as I can convince my grandfather that it’s ok if I take the external hard drive home to work on these. He’ll hate it not happening here, to the point that he was almost going to make us go up and buy a Mac (Grandma talked him out of it).
Time for some suggestions from the home audience. Honestly, will a 20″ iMac (the good one) be noticably faster than the MacBook? Or should I look at getting a Windows box for this? Or use Final Cut? HELP!
Makes sense that I do these via video, right?
Off today to try to edit on the Mac using a 30″ screen. I’m sure it won’t work, but I’ve got a plan that I might fill you all in on later.
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