This collection of entries is from November 28, 2003.
Carol & I were lumps today. We did nothing. (OK, I went out to Chipotle for some Burrito Bols for dinner, but that was it).
We're still recovering from yesterday... and work. Actually, I'm working on an inventory spreadsheet for work so that I know what machines we have staged and sitting in the warehouse for deploy.
Still nothing happening, just crash time... Oh, and it's friggin' snowing outside... the salt trucks have gone through the neighborhood, but nothing is sticking to the ground...
The best laid plans...
I had the intention of getting my video together for my little Blog-A-Turkey "thing" while I was actually barbecuing and then after dinner sometime. Well, that didn't happen. Somehow, the time wasn't there (let's just say that things got a little out of hand and the party didn't end until almost 11pm - way longer than Carol & I wanted).
Oh, the turkey really turned out good this year - juicy as always but everyone was raving about the taste... and I didn't do anything different!!!
I'm having problems with the MJPEG codecs in Adobe Premiere, so it wouldn't decode the AVI files that my Canon S230 PowerShot produced. I decided to try Windows Movie Maker that comes with XP. For a cheapo product, I was really pleased with how easy it worked.
I was disappointed with two things, however - The first is audio. The Canon camera records the audio and a weird-ass frequency rate that's not standard at all. Movie Maker doesn't handle the conversion well, and I sound like I have a lisp!
Secondly, file size. The project was rendered into a 36Mb file for 12:27 running time, at 320x240. When I added titles to some scenes, the file size jumped to over 51Mb!
Oh, I guess there's a third complaint - it's rendered in Windows Media Video format - WMV.
I need to fix Adobe Premiere.
So, here it is - the final video of Blog-A-Turkey 2003!