Saturday 08/26/2023
In the morning I modified the Country & Western video I had made. One of the segments is old TV video of Patsy Cline singing “Crazy”. Joanne thought the audio was not up to par, and wanted me to use the audio from a CD she had of Patsy Cline’s greatest hits. Sigh. So I ripped the CD into the computer, and took the audio of that track and used it to replace the audio track that came with the YouTube video. Juggled the timing around so the words on the new recording pretty much matched up with Patsy’s mouth moving–can’t be perfect because she didn’t phrase the song the same way every time, but it matches well enough.
(Actually, now I look at the original video, it isn’t properly synced itself! I don’t think the audio in that video is from the TV show, I think somebody patched in her singing from a different record. So I replaced one phony audio track with another one.)
Then I had to do the steps to finish the video. First, iMovie export to a file, that takes 45 minutes. Then use Handbrake (wonderful piece of freeware) to compress it to 1/10th the size that iMovie makes, another 45 minutes. Then use MetaDoctor Pro (an app I bought) to install the chapter markers on it. That step at least is quick.
At 1pm I left for the museum to lead the 2pm tour. I don’t know, I was off today or something. I had one woman that was really riveted by my talk, really into it, and maybe 6 others who were attentive throughout, but quite a few of the starting group of 20 or so, drifted away.
Anyway, had a nice supper with Patty and Jean and Martha.
Codgerville 