4.195 laundry, tech, meeting

Wednesday 06/14/2023

First thing I got the laundry going. My left foot was still too painful for a long walk. The rest of the day was mostly A/V tech in various forms. First off, I updated and modified my checklist for running a hybrid zoom event, and sent a copy to Kass who is going to assist me — she doesn’t know it but she’s going to run it with my assistance, heh heh — running the Sunday @ Home this coming Sunday. And scheduled that in the zoom room software.

In scheduling it I found the recording files of a speaker from last week, and that needed to be taken care of. By which I mean, the 5GB of recordings have to be downloaded and deleted from the Zoom cloud storage, so that it won’t interrupt us in the middle of an event and say, sorry, your cloud quota is full, I’m stopping the recording. Like it did once.

But then with the files downloaded it needs to be put together into a video. There are two files, one of the camera on the speaker, and the second file just her slides, of which she had a lot. I put these two together in iMovie, and edit it so it shows each slide briefly when she mentions it, and then goes back to the speaker until the next slide. It’s not difficult but a little tedious. I had that about half done at 12 when it was time to go set up for the next thing.

That was the Channing House Players dress rehearsal. About 8 of my neighbors have been taking weekly classes from Sinjin Jones, who is the artistic director of the Pear Theater. They have worked up a series of short scenes, a program of about 35 minutes in all, to be presented twice this Friday. This was the first time they would rehearse with mics on. Our nice little over-the-ear personal mics. Also I wanted to practice recording the performance. So that all took about 2 hours.

Then I went back to my room and finished editing the speaker video and sent it off to Lenny to upload to Vimeo.

At 5 we had our monthly floor meeting. No exciting news there. And all went to dinner together.