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October 28, 2004 under Computers, Software

Back in the summer, Dena’s boss filmed our wedding with his analog/digital camcorder. When he used Roxio VideoWave to transfer the video to his computer from the analog tape via a Firewire connection, it grabbed 61 minutes worth of video as one file. Our wedding comprised of about 17 minutes of that, with the remaining being comprised of his family events and Civil War re-enacting footage. He gave me a 2GB MPEG-2 file in 720×380. Dena is leaving for Crystal Falls tomorrow for ten days and wanted to bring a copy of the video from our wedding to her family. How was I to get 2GB worth of MPEG-2 data onto a CD (some folks don’t have DVD drives)? The trial version of Adobe Premiere Pro came to the rescue. I couldn’t find a good open-source app for this. Ulead and Pinnacle force you to create an account before you download any of their trials. Abobe makes you do the same, but I already had an account with them. In the end, Premiere worked mint. After a few failed attempts using DivX and Quicktime video compression that yielded a file still too large for a 700MB CD, I settled on good ol’ ubiquitous Indeo (I didn’t want people to need to hunt down and install codecs), cranked the FPS and resolution down a bit and edited out the video that had nothing to do with our wedding. 368MB was the final result. Then I created an autorun.inf, wrote a quickie C++ EXE to do the launching from the autorun and burned it…with room to spare for plenty of JPGs from the wedding 😀

In other news, Pat finally has a site and it features a Serendipity blog. The idea of moving my site to a better host that offers more, like MonsterHosting, keeps moving closer and closer to the forefront of my mind. And we still don’t have hot water, but the superintendant did come to see it for herself and now she’s a believer.

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