Wanting to fit in with the other kids in grade school, I would beg my mom to make me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or bologna and cheese on Wonder Bread. Ha - not a chance. I would open my lunch box and find that she'd pack me (gasp!) steak. It would be cut up into bite-sized pieces and folded inside layer of steamed rice, flattened like a sandwich and wrapped in plastic film. Snacks? I wanted apples, oranges, bananas, potato chips, chocolate chip or oreo cookies. I would get suman, bibingka, turon. No one notices what you are eating when you're at home or at a party with people familiar with the food ~ but to take it to school for lunch?? Not even close.
My classmates would pick on me for having "weird" food. Sometimes the boys would grab it out of my hands and play catch with it until it fell to the ground. Then they would stomp on it and run away laughing.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Monday, July 09, 2007
I-580 Reconstruction Video Project
Face it - I push Proshow to the limits. Even their customer support people say so. I originally wanted to build Greg's photo documentation into one continuous show but the program could not hold and swap a slideshow of over 3,000 images. So I had to break it down - Bent Cap (500+ slides), Setting Steel (494+ slides), Lost Deck & Rebar (1,500+ slides), Deck Pour (500+ slides). Then I added a Credits (less than 100 slides).
As it turned out, it was easier to manage them individually. But how to make them play as if they were one show was another issue. Customer support said I could set the last slide of each show to "play next show". Same problem - too large a swap file - and the program would crash.
I tried another suggestion, to use the "play all" button, then list them individually on a second menu page. That sort of worked but the navigation on the second page was sloppy and unpredictable.
This morning I ended up rendering each show into an mpg file, but now I'm wondering if an avi would be better (have to check that). I created a new slideshow and dropped each file into a slide and now they transition from one to another as if one show.
Keep your fingers crossed, I hope this works!
As it turned out, it was easier to manage them individually. But how to make them play as if they were one show was another issue. Customer support said I could set the last slide of each show to "play next show". Same problem - too large a swap file - and the program would crash.
I tried another suggestion, to use the "play all" button, then list them individually on a second menu page. That sort of worked but the navigation on the second page was sloppy and unpredictable.
This morning I ended up rendering each show into an mpg file, but now I'm wondering if an avi would be better (have to check that). I created a new slideshow and dropped each file into a slide and now they transition from one to another as if one show.
Keep your fingers crossed, I hope this works!
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