No video yet! Then Success!

I have just sent off a note to say that the video has not arrived (24 hours has elapsed), so the link below to "Introduction" won't work! Maybe SpinXpress would have worked - next time!

Addendum 12/14/06. I loaded the video using SpinXpress, no problem, so the link below now works, moreover it is spooky to think this on the Internet Archive. My work is already on the archive from various previous incarnations.

My other blog concerns my morning bike ride and peregrine falcons (well sometimes!)

Now, how do I get a video panel like the one used to display the video at Ourmedia.

First Vlog!

I set up and account with the Internet Archive then logged into ourmedia and sent my (compressed) videoblog off to be stored. That was some hours ago, and so far it has not appeared online. So I'm not sure when (if!) the link to my Quicktime movie "Introduction" will appear.
{See above comments - and a better solution - 12/14/06, 14.30 GMT}

iLife '06 and iPhoto

I installed this and was sidetracked into editing my 8500+ digital 'photos. Before the digital camera age I used Kodak PhotoCD from 1994, and the older version of iPhoto did not allow renaming of the film rolls, so I set about sorting them all out. Nearly there, but the program wants to rebuild my thumbnail cache rather frequently (now about halfway through whilst setting up this post). Otherwise this version of iPhoto is very much faster, and it is relatively easy to re-arrange the contents of the film rolls, both by dragging, and making new ones.
Now to try iMovie with my iSight camera!

Success - well almost

After yesterday's problems I decided to pay a visit to PC World and treat myself to a copy of iLife, this has the updated iMovie version - and some other goodies. Installation on this 3 year old iMac is sometimes a bit dodgy, but the DVD read after about six goes. Now to find out about setting up a vlog with the screens showing Chris's poem sequence in the Sheffield Millennium Gallery.

A Preview of one frame:

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!