For the next issue of our class newspaper, Ink, I am part of the editorial team. Because of this, I took a break from my business beat to come up with other content for the paper. I made a fun little Christmas crossword puzzle, and thought I'd try out some multimedia work as well. As a musician and lover of all things musical, I ventured out across campus to find out what people were listening to. I took pictures to add my findings to the print edition of Ink, but also got the video camera out so that I could post what people said to the web. I jumped over another technology induced hurdle when it came to editing my video. It turns out that iMovie HD, which is installed on my MacBook Pro, does not play audio when "muxed" files are imported into the program. Essentially, the audio and video were on the same track, and iMovie HD doesn't like that for some reason. Luckily, I searched around on the Internet and found a program that would convert my muxed mpeg files into dv files, which iMovie is happy to recognize and work with. It took awhile to get to this point, but once everything was working, the process was relatively painless. Every time I have a computer problem I will spend hours working on it until the issue is resolved. It's impossible for me to allow the computer to win -- it needs to do what I want it do to.
Anyway, before I start ranting about computers and the stupidity of some programs, here is the video I made:
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Annie, I really liked your video. (It's much more polished than the one I made ha). I can tell you didn't just step outside the j-school and grab the first few people who walked by. You headed to different spots around campus, which makes for a more interesting video, I think.
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