wish you a Very Happy Thursday

[kodalai]

Today has been a good day. Slept for 10 hours until 1 PM, got up, went to the mailroom where I got a paycheck. Over a hundred bucks for the extra hours I put in last month, yay! Went out to deposit the paycheck, and did some grocery shopping. Got back in time for work; no calls all afternoon, whee, and I finished my project right before 5. :3 Then went out and had steak and mushroom for dinner from the barbeque guys on the lawn, who are awesome.

The nice thing about attending one of the five colleges here in SoCal is that on any given afternoon, wander around long enough and you're sure to find somebody with a barbeque. They almost never check and see if you're signed up, either.

Other good things:

1) Mum sent me an email which did not include bad news about puppy
2) Did not receive low grade notice on Wednesday despite abysmal performance on last Japanese test, yay!
3) It is now the weekend, and my game tomorrow has been cancelled.
4) Change of advisors shouldn't be a problem. Probably
5) Toll house cookie dough (i am a bad, bad person.)
6) Been writing lots and lots lately
7) Finally got hold of a program that lets me do video editing. Does anybody have a nice manual on using iMovie? I'm supposed to be able to do things in it like readjusting clip sizes and setting bookmarks, and I don't know how to do either.

Comments

[okaasan59.livejournal.com]

*hopes no-news-is-good-news about the puppy*

May I ask where you got a copy of iMovie? (I don't need specifics, but I was wondering if shareware was available, as I'd like to attempt soemthing along those lines myself oneday.)

Toll house cookie dough is da bomb!^_^

[oysterverse.livejournal.com]

At the moment, yeah. Basically, her condition can't change for the better until a surgeon can work with her broken bones (Monday at soonest), and she was stable on Thursday evening, so any change would have to be for the worse. Thus, no news is good news.

::sighs:: The house is far too quiet without the puppy spontaneously barking at the neighbors and trying to herd the cats.

[oysterverse.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I think iMovie comes bundled with the Mac OS. If you have a Mac but not iMovie, I think you can purchase it seperately or as part of the iLife package (iMovie, iTunes, iPhoto, and Garageband); if you don't have a Mac, I don't know if you can use iMovie.

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

May I ask where you got a copy of iMovie?

I don't recall that I did -- I'm pretty sure it just came with my computer. What I'm wondering is if that's just the free, basic version, and there's another version out there that you pay for and that's where all these other features are.

[oysterverse.livejournal.com]

Any consortium where you can glick free barbecue can't be all bad.

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

I've actually grown either more fond of, or more resigned to, Pitzer this year. It has some nice points. Largely not the students, the academics, or the administration, but it has its nice points. >_> I think perhaps not taking any classes here this semester is helping.

[foxglove6.livejournal.com]

iMovie? ::cringe!:: sorry, i know I'm v. spoilt w/ Avid and fcp but still! Maybe jay will send you a version of his fcp. i don't know. If you need help w/ the terminology (which you prolly won't), just ask.

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

For lack of anything better I've found, I've gone to iMovie. Pretty much everyone I ask says that aside from a couple of pieces of software which are a few hundred bucks each to purchase, iMovie is just about all there is.

[(Anonymous)]

7) I have a manual (iLife '04, the Missing Manual, by Pogue et al). To set bookmarks: (a) position playhead at some important spot; (b) use Bookmarks / Add Bookmarks (or apple - B). A tiny green diamond appears, visible only in Timeline Viewer Mode. You can tab quickly through bookmarks. You can use them as absolute anchors, so that you can rearrange clips, for example with a precise spot on the audio, or align the playhead (have it snap to the bookmark if timeline snapping is on in the Prefs). Bookmarks can't be moved -- instead, delete one and create another.

All I find related to the "readjusting clip sizes" are passages on shortening ends (new in iMovie4 & non-destructive) and a couple of methods of trimming (destructive -- but there are ten steps of Undo plus a Restore Clip Command) that are too involved to summarize here. If you are going into this stuff seriously, you might consider acquiring this (or the single volume iMovie, the Missing Manual, depending on what other iLife programs you use).

Daddy

ps Arwen seems to have made it through surgery successfully.

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

That's what I figured. *pulls at hair* But there's no menu anywhere in my iMovie for bookmarks, and using the shortcut apple-B doesn't do anything at all. ~_~

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

And thank heavens about Arwen. I figure I would have heard from you if there was any disastrous news, but it's nice to know.