MyVideos

Yesterday's appreciation program for me and my family was a blast! The slideshow by Jimmy Chueng was great--only problem was that it had too many pictures of me. Nobody else but me would probably want to sit through that long a show of watching pictures of the same person. 'Nuff said.

Staying on the topic of videos on the web, I recently found this video interview that was made in 2003, I think.

As for my video resume from my last blog entry, I uploaded it in chapters to Youtube today. Check it out.

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.

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