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 …
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What an Interesting Week
The short version. Internet got turned off. I spent the day in Hollywood. Got to meet George Barris. Worked more on an offshoot of my Film Transfer Project. Let’s call it family archiving Had a job interview Followed the lad around at school Got Internet turned back on. I wasn’t completely without Internet. I was …
Film Transfer update 23
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. My Mac My recovered Western Digital Firewire drive iMovie ’08 Here is what I’ve done and/or am doing. Copied all .dv files to my ext. hard drive …
I’m starting to hate computers
…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 …
Video Transfer Update
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.