Tuesday 03/04/2025
Tidied up for housekeeping. Then paid a bill and did the monthly accounting. And resumed editing the event video I started last night. This is not a difficult process. A Zoom cloud recording gives me two useful videos, one the view from our cameras, the other the speaker’s shared content, slides or whatever. I stack them in iMovie, the slides on top. Then I chop away the slides to reveal the speaker behind the podium. When they say, “And this shows” and turn toward the screen, I cut back to the slides for ten seconds. I also cut out long pauses, and breaks when they couldn’t advance their slides, and boring questions from the audience… It takes about 2 hours to finish editing a one-hour lecture. So I got the first one done before it was time for the writers meeting. For which I had nothing, and Dr. Margaret scolded me. Fair enough, I deserved it.
After lunch I edited two more events, so that’s three for the day. Around those tasks I worked on a stupid PC. Well, they are all stupid. This is a nice new Dell laptop that the IT department bought for the AV team to use for Zoom hosting. But somebody has to make sure it is updated and has all the needful software. I tried to pass this to my team, three of whom are more familiar with Windows than I am. But one was sick, and one is busy, and blah blah. So I started on the job myself.
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