Getting Started

I'm impressed with the Freevlog.org site, so decided to set up my own video blog. I have a Mac and a copy of iMovie (needed according to the guru for compressing a movie), also a camera (Canon A540), and a movie to try out (from a recording of Chris Jones LOST poem on the screens in the Sheffield Millenium Gallery. Part of the sequence 'A Museum of Work'(Podcast). Chris is my daughter Joanna's partner, father to my two grandchildren, Joseph and William, and Sheffield poet.

SNAG! My copy of iMovie is raaather old (3.0.3), and won't do compression! Seems like i will have to get an up-to-date copy. The latest is iMovie HD6 and is part of iLife.

Reading the freevlog site I see a program called AvidFreeDV. It should do what I want - and there is a Mac version. So, answer lots of questions, get the file and install the program. It starts OK after the password and registration are entered. A couple of new windows appear, promising. Then I get a notice 'Connecting to the Internet',funny, I'm on Broadband and permanently connected. The 'wheel of death' persists ... for so long that I check the program status. 'Not responding', so a Force quit is needed! I do this 3 times with the same result, so uninstall the wretched FreeDV program!