Posting this morning from Meadowcreek High School in Gwinnett County, northeast of Atlanta. It’s a professional development day for the teachers here and my workshop is about working more efficiently on the desktop, keeping files organized, and getting more from the browser. The network here won’t let my laptop online, so I’m posting from a lab computer with Internet Explorer 6 – so no tabbed browsing, no Google toolbar, no
... I have to post his NOW, so here goes!
Prepping for an inservice presentation, I found The How-To Geek”, a slew of helpful tips for Windows, Mac OS X, Office, Linux, and much more.
For example, I was looking for tips on Microsoft Word, and found Search and Replace Specific Formatting (fonts, styles, etc.) in Microsoft Word. I did not know you could copy and paste style attributes like that – I knew about it in advanced video editors, but not in Word. A valuable tip.
Lots of things to catch up on – I’ve saved several drafts I want to get back to, five just this morning, from sites I’ve found in the last week or so, since my last post – and I’ll take a break from the web for a day or two. I have to do email here at work of course, but the edit room and some overdue projects there call me. The biggest issue there is audio dropout in a multi-camera shoot. The tape with the two-shot of a conversation also has the main audio, and there are several places where words and parts of words just disappear, along with the time code, but there are no breaks in the video. Odd, and Final Cut just doesn’t like it. I’ve tried capturing with iMovie but FC doesn’t like to import those files either. I’ll keep at it and report back here.
And then I’ll finish updating the site, and catch up on the many many many drafts I haven’t posted, and keep up with my video projects, and work on more workshops, and continue to add features and fine tune the lab iMacs and MacBooks – including adding Windows via VMWare on one for a test case – and continue to learn more about Photoshop, add more storage to the XServe, and there’s always more which is good.