Thursday 11/06/2025
Lovely day with few commitments. I decided to try to understand Da Vinci Resolve. I am sort of looking for a better video editor than iMovie. Resolve, remarkably, has a free version that isn’t crippled, and that has definitely got more features than iMovie. Oh my does it have more features. It has a user manual, quite well organized and written, a mere 220GB PDF file of 4000 pages. I got as far as page 805, flipping rapidly from chapter to chapter. In three hours I managed to prove to myself that I could do basic editing with it, but I couldn’t establish whether it could do the one thing I want that iMovie doesn’t do: put scrolling text over a video, for karaoke-style lyrics. It might? But I can’t tell. I got bored.
I got my annual wellness check at 2. Ball, Tree, Flag. 100, 92, 84, 76, 68, 60. I’m as sane as Trump.
After that Joanne and I went for a nice walk down to the Edgewood plaza for an iced tea.
I hit the dining room when it opened at 5, so I could have time to set up the auditorium before 6. That’s when the four members of The Rounder Circle were to arrive, to set up for their concert at 7:30. This was the group I discovered by chance by overhearing their lead singer, Hillary, talking to the clerks at Gryphon instruments. They showed up, and set up, and I was able to bring their sound into our system, all very smooth. I took video of their performance and their tech lead guy had his laptop and so he went away with the nice video. Their music was well received, several people told me afterward how much they enjoyed them.
And that is about the last performance related thing I need to worry about for a month. Until the December musicale at which I am supposed to sing and play something.
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