tommyrot, thanks for posting that. A Vic-20 was our first computer. Spiders of Mars! Kongo Kong!
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smonster - Oct 08, 2012 7:20:14 pm PDT #21182 of 25501
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
meara - Oct 08, 2012 8:03:10 pm PDT #21183 of 25501
Ugh. Apparently iMovie is not the answer for me. I thought it would work similar to other apple products and be vaguely intuitive. I feel like it ought to be easy to grab a few seconds here and a few seconds there and clip and drag and drop or something, and that seems to in no way be how iMovie works. ARGH.
-t - Oct 08, 2012 8:16:56 pm PDT #21184 of 25501
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Toast is pretty easy, but I don't know what it costs, or how well it works with anything that is not recorded tv.
Gris - Oct 09, 2012 5:04:24 am PDT #21185 of 25501
Hey. New board.
that seems to in no way be how iMovie works.
Really? That's basically how I'd describe iMovie. There are some tricks to using it better, but if you follow a couple of basic tutorials (even the built-in ones) I think you'll be able to do what you want faster and more easily on that than anything else you're likely to find.
§ ita § - Oct 10, 2012 5:17:21 pm PDT #21186 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So no one has any camcorder knowledge they can bring to bear on my sister's query?
Rob - Oct 10, 2012 6:55:08 pm PDT #21187 of 25501
What's she going to do with the footage?
§ ita § - Oct 10, 2012 6:58:14 pm PDT #21188 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think it's for academic archival and reference. Not moviemaking or rebroadcast, but I'll verify. She's moving from audio recordings of her interviews to video.
Rob - Oct 10, 2012 7:04:56 pm PDT #21189 of 25501
I guess it depends on whether it records usable sound. It used to be hit or miss with camcorders to get decent sound, but for all I know these flash-based cameras all record well.
I don't know how you can tell that without trying it.
§ ita § - Oct 10, 2012 7:49:58 pm PDT #21190 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Living in Jamaica you don't get to try before you buy.
I guess--what can you buy for ~$50 that can give her decent footage to analyse body language? So maybe audio isn't the big deal. Tripods are useful too, for that price.
§ ita § - Oct 11, 2012 5:23:40 am PDT #21191 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We had a warning go out yesterday at work asking people not to decline invitations on iOS 6 devices, because it was frelling the meetings declining multiple people, and somesuch. Anyone encountered anything like that, or is it just a peculiarity of our email (Exchange) setup?
As for my sister, she will be reviewing on a laptop screen. I'd imagine VGA would be fine.