MM discs came today; I have mainlined the first five eps in a row.

Lemme just say? When I declared it to be the prettiest show in teevee history, that was based on the low-quality TiVo recordings of the standard def cable feed. With network bugs and coming up next trailers and all that shit.

Oh. My. God.

Video audition:

Curses! Foiled by technology!

juliana met with me and coached me and very patiently directed me through like a billion wobbly takes of some of the monologues and threw them onto a DVD for me. Which my BIDs forced me not to even look at until just a little while ago. And, while it turns out that I'm less hideously unwatchable and unlistenable than I'd previously thought, it doesn't matter because absolutely nothing can be transferred from the DVD to my hard drive, or uploaded to the MM website, or, well, anything at all except played right here.

SO ANNOYED. I had to beat back a billion demons just to meet with juliana to do the damn thing, and now it doesn't suck, but it doesn't matter that it doesn't suck. DAMNIT.

Oh no, JZ! I'm be happy to troubleshoot (here or in the tech thread) if you want. If I knew how the DVD was authored I might be able to salvage the media. (My best guess right now is the program Juliana used to burn it automatically slapped on some kind of hideous copy-protection, which you can probably circumvent with something like Handbrake or MPEG Streamclip.)

Thankyouthankyouthankyou!

I have no idea what the program was. It was just whatever was inside the camera. There's zero chance juliana is up, caffeinated and functional right now, but I'll ping her when she gets to work. I can't believe (a) it's fixable, and (b) it's an on-purpose thing built into the damn program.

Will it play in a regular DVD player, or only from the camera? (If it will only from the camera, the disc might just need to be finalized.)

It was finalized in the camera. Haven't tried it in a DVD player, but it plays fine on the Mac. I tried copying it over into iMovie, but iMovie was having none of it.

This is starting to sound like my efforts to make my TAR audition VHS tape.

Others know better than I, but I'm pretty sure you can't rip a DVD directly into iMovie. You need to first rip it onto your hard drive with something like Handbrake, and then import the resulting file into iMovie.

Yeah, iMovie can't import anything directly from a DVD. Actually, the email I sent you last week about that job-related thing - all that info applies here as well.

jz, I hope you figure it out because it would be lovely to see you on MM!

(And by the bye - there's a Mad Men "best of" 30 minute clip show playing in regular rotation on AMC this week.)