I'm almost as bad...I grilled steaks in the rain last night. I was holdin' an umbrella in one hand and a cold beer in the other and a fork in the other - er, wait that's too many, isn't it?    Now I realize why sometimes I'd go for a swig of beer and get a poke in the eye.   Ever notice about the time you take the steaks up the ...

               Glub, glub...where did I put that periscope????                 

towbar:I understand completely about keeping it short, but that's what chapters are for. The complete ceremony will be on one chapter, then the others will be created as the mood fits. 12 minutes seems to be a maximum length of a chapter for me. I usually have the entire ceremony uncut with chapters at the sub-events - bride entrance, ''I ...

Still using 10.7 to edit video captured from 8mm film 11.* has never settled down and been stable on any of my machines 12.1 is the most stable on my P4 3.2 GHz Intel machines and the 2.66 Intel Dual Core Trying 14 on a newly built Quad Core...ah, the pains of new computer AND new software...

towbar:There once was a user named Bitt,Whos birthday on this day was it,He wanted a cake,But his friends could not bake,So his candles just sit on a plate. Happy Birthday Bittmann ! Bitto....er,...ditto!    

Marc P.: bsdennis: I would still be concerned about the difference in frame rate of 8mm film (typically 15-16 fps) vs 30 fps (29.97) for NTSC television. We capture 8000 - 9000 ft per month with a frame by frame method using a 3-CCD camera via Firewire to avi files in a custom built computer. We capture directly off the emulsion vs. ...

towbar:This is the last year that I'm going to do this for free, next year the marching band is going to have to pay me at least five dollars. A man owned a small ranch near Sheridan, Wyoming. The Wyoming Labor Department got a tip that he was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an investigator out to interview him. ''I need a list ...

towbar: This is the last year that I'm going to do this for free, next year the marching band is going to have to pay me at least five dollars. The free ones are the hardest to finish, aren't they? I still have 20 hours of video from an Oregon coast trip that my wife, my parents and I took  September 2007....It's in the ...

well, ghosts and Halloween do go hand in hand....  

I create several slideshows per week with all photos animated - some degree of zoom and pan. I hate the portraits that customers bring in to include in the slideshow. If you get rid of the black on the sides, you lop off Grandma's head. So I just start zoomed out (black bars all around) and zoom in until the photo fills the top and ...