Things have been going along great this week despite some bad, and some good, technical issues. Wish they were all this productive.
The bad thing was the new format for footage for The Burning Room. It looks good but it comes out as huge files that aren't easy to transport and even harder to work with. Getting them compressed into a more usable format wasn't very easy either. Maybe it's just my puter is 5 years old but some programs just won't work right. It could be a PC vs Mac thing but the program everyone swore about at PATV froze up at home. It would sit for hours and hours preparing to run and then nothing would happen. Finally loaded the footage up in to Premiere Pro CC and exported it to mpeg files. I can finally edit them now. I understand mpeg is becoming the standard for video files because it can adapt to either system better than the rest.
It brings up to one of the things that still gets me about video. You will eventually get to that point where you hit the button and just wait, and wait, and wait. Despite the magnificent things that puters can do really fast that is one thing they don't do in a hurry. Today was made up of lots of things going on with going back every 30 minutes or so to start a new export. Finally getting it done.
On the good side of things finally got the dictation software up and running. This is making putting the books together very easy. I can sit down and do a whole page of hand written fiction in about 20 minutes. I'd definitely recommend it.
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