Saturday, October 07, 2006

Video Resume finally done!

Ah, the wonders of functionality when all your applications work together. That's a strong selling point for the Mac system.

It's taken the better part of three weeks, but I have finally finished my video memories DVD of my Fort Bend years. The DVD will serve as both memories DVD as well as video resume.

The process described simply has been like this:


  • Acquired a Mac Mini (1.6 GHZ, 512 MB RAM Superdrive)


  • Transferred my Photos Folder to the Mac Mini.


  • Imported pictures to iPhoto, and imported audio files to iTunes.


  • In iPhoto, went through the pictures and categorized them (slightly over 7,000 pictures)


  • In iMovie, selected pictures and put them together in a photo/movie clips montage DV movie, added some transitions and soundtrack from iTunes


  • In iDVD, created menus and sub-menus, and additional content for DVD-ROM section.


  • Burn DVD, watch, and go back to iMovie and iDVD to revise (several times)


  • Design DVD jacket for DVD case.


  • Have my wife Betty ask me to stop revising and be happy.



  • Mac Mini, iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie, and IDVD are all trademarks of Apple Computer

    2 comments:

    thelins said...

    Wow - cool. Can we take a look???

    Mr. Frank said...

    I have a quicktime version already. I'll see if I can post it on youtube or something similar.