As a kid, I used to love eating Kentucky Fried Chicken. But lately, my tummy can't seem to take the oil anymore, and I can't stomach more than a piece or two.
I'm sure that last sentence sounded very strange, so let me explain.... Some parents like gourmet food, and others like traditional home cooked meals. My dad? He loves KFC. Without fail, his one wish every Father's Day and on his birthday would inevitably be a request to eat at KFC. This has become somewhat of a Lee family tradition, and Joan finds this very amusing (and nauseating too, since she actually detests eating fast food).
So we figured that what better way to chase the blues away than a visit to good ole' Colonel Sanders this evening, since he was down in the dumps the last couple of days.
No prizes for guessing who will be the first to volunteer to take Clare out for some fast food goodness in future. I just hope my dad feels better. He really loved that dog so.
Clare entertaining herself during our recent roadtrip to Malacca. She was feeding the doll, tucking it into bed and talking to it during the roadtrip. Very cute :)
I stumbled upon this on Mr Brown's blog recently, and thought of the time that Joan and I were considering shelling out about $600 to get Clare a little trailer attachment so that she could accompany us on our bike rides.
The corporate comms people revealed to me today that they do their video editing from their HD video camera in WMV format in Adobe Premiere.
Sigh.
On top of that, they believe that there is no loss in image quality by converting from HD to WMV. i.e. the output is as good as their original HD footage. SIGH.
When I tried to explain that WMV is not a suitable file format for video editing, and that I would need to render the footage in order to edit the footage, they insinuated that Final Cut (which I am using) is somehow inferior because it does not support WMV editing natively. Apparently, you can edit WMV files in Adobe Premiere Pro on Windows without needing rendering.
SIGH!!!
To begin the story, they bought a consumer-grade video camera from Sony, which outputs HD footage in .mts format. Unless you are willing to do some hacking, this format is not playable (much less editable) unless the footage is in the camera, and the camera is hooked up to a PC installed with Sony's proprietary video software (there is no Mac version... thanks Sony). To top it off, the dumb software provided by Sony will have to first convert the .mts files from the camera into a .m2ts format before doing a conversion to WMV or MPEG2 format for editing in Adobe Premiere.
I hate proprietary file formats.
My Mac estimates that rendering the entire video in Final Cut would take 23 hours. I caved in and decided to use the windows box that corporate comms was using for video editing, and it choked on the video clip. The computer locked up the two times I tried importing a 600mb piece of footage. I gave up waiting after 15 minutes each time. At least Final Cut has the courtesy to tell me how long it would take.
