Thursday 11/02/2023
Going back to yesterday, I’m always taking pictures and forgetting to post them, here’s the view of Andrew Binder, the police chief, addressing us, as seen from the A/V desk.
So many screens, huh? From right to left, a monitor showing the views from our two cameras and which one is selected. A screen showing the output of the Zoom Room PC, the image from our center camera. Below it my Macbook, being the Zoom host. The small one is an iPad that controls the Zoom Room software. In the center an iPad that controls all the hardware.
So this morning I edited the video for End of Life session 4. That I had recorded directly to disk from the video switcher (out of frame on the right). It takes an hour or so to edit a 90 minute video when it’s simple, no slide show. Just go through it and snip out any empty pauses while people are shuffling their microphones around or whatever. Then iMovie takes half an hour to process it to make a movie file. Then I run it through another app, Handbrake, to compress it further. Then I upload it to Vimeo and when that’s done, send the link to various people.
I went out to buy more hummingbird sugar at 10:30, while the Macbook ground away in iMovie export. On return I checked and it was time for the 6th floor to come down for the flu shot clinic. Except when I went down, they didn’t have my name on the list. I am dead sure I did sign up for it, but somehow I got lost. No problem, they could take me after the scheduled shots later.
So back to my room and edited the video from Chief Binder’s talk. That was recorded in the cloud by Zoom, so I had to download it first. Then same deal, into iMovie and trim the beginning and end and any gaps during. Export, compress, upload. All done for lunch, then down to get my shot.
Afternoon I played guitar and cleaned the apartment, then out to let Wanda do her thing. Wanda, our highly valued 6th floor housekeeper, just got her U.S. citizenship, and we are all congratulating her.
I went down to supper and for the first time in a long time, I was displeased. There was nobody I wanted to sit with, and the menu didn’t interest me, so I didn’t sit down, walked through the dining room and on down to the garage and drove over to Town and Country and had a burger and shake.
Walking around T&C after, went into the bookstore. Nice bookstore, hadn’t been in there in literal years. There was a time when Marian and I would make regular trips to dinner and a bookstore browse.
Codgerville 