I had planned on bringing home the footage for the Commercial Project and using it with Livetype to spiff up my commercial. Before I left class, I loaded the files on my flash drive or at least I thought I did. After we figured out why my project did not appear in the drop box I should have gone back in and loaded the completed file. All That was on the drive was a file of an incomplete project with no clips. That would not have been a problem if I had opened once I got home but I did not do that. I waited to check it on Thursday after the lab hours were over. So I will just have to see if I can make it out to the Lab on Tuesday after work. Of course there is no guarantee I would finish the edit before class. Oh, just a thought, maybe I can run out and get the footage and call in sick on Wednesday. I would have the whole day to work on the project. I am not going to do that of course but it was the only bright spot to my weekend so far.
I did find the DV connection for the camcorder I borrowed from mom. I went to circuit city and bought a firewire. Not the right one of course but I at least am getting closer to retrieving the video of the Homecoming parade. While I was there I looked for a camcorder for myself. Yep, I found a really nice pricey one that the sales clerk assured me was firewire capable and that was the one I needed. When I got it home it was not equipped with a DV, IEEE 1394 or firewire port. I returned to CircuitCity and argued for a while found a cheaper one (open box) was able use a firewire connection. I got on line and discovered I needed a 4 to 6 pin firewire to connect to the MAC and it will ship in 24 hours ( actually that will most likely be 48 hours as this is Saturday).
I took a bunch of stills, some Livetype and a soundtrack I made in GarageBand and imported it to Final cut Express. Not great but I am learning a lot.
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Sorry, I missed this post before. This has all the elements that I thought were missing in your original spot. I bet your video files are still on the mac in the lab. Remind me and I'll try to help you find them.
oops! wrong account -Bob
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