June 9th 2006

The video project is moving slowly but surely. Editing is going well. June 2nd Corps day had no tape for Jesse. The machine that we are using at Intermedia Arts doesn't have write capabilities. I am working on the video presentation, organization. The organization is a little different than we originally planned. We are primarily utilizing the interviews and integrating the accessibility features of the sites we put on video. There are too many good quotes, to not use them. The sound is going well I tried emailing a copy of the video "project" to Jesse and one to myself, just to find out that the projects don't email well they need to be actually saved as a non-"project" ie. an audio file or a video. Lessons learned about the video thus far with a test run on a small video from the Media Committee.

1. Windows Movie Maker does have subtitle capability.
2. You can not email a project either video or audio.
3. There is a big difference between closed captioning and subtitles.
4. The subtitle is under title and does not go away even when the video file is cut and the
Windows Media Player settings are set to not show subtitles.

We did a trial run with the subtitling on the Media Committee video. The video worked out fine a little trial and error between ticker (if the speed was adjustable this could be a viable option) and subtitle. The subtitle is a little tricky, I am trying to make sure it shows up long enough to be read, but keeping it in synchronization with spoken words.

Jesse has found some good music files that we will be talking about working with. We also have to still get together, our schedules have been altered a little and we have alternative projects that may prove to be useful, also. The deadline will be moved towards mid-July for the toolkit, due to rescheduling and timing.