Today was the talent show at CHS. Haha. Ha. Ha. It’s been horrible every year in recent memory. A few MCs that no one can understand, a 9:1 ratio of hip-hop acts vs. anything else, all started off by a lesson in clapping from our Assistant Principle. I’m not sure which is worse - that someone would actually have us practice clapping before a show starts, or that some people in the audience probably could use a lesson or to in it. They actually picked a good winner this year, however. Resident Senior Caroline Spence won first place, and I have to say, she is a truly excellent musician. Wonderful singer, leads the female a cappella group at CHS… She deserves recognition.

The computer beat me yesterday. I was attempting to create a “highlight tape” for a senior football players (something for college), and needed to take a bunch of tracks off of DVDs and mix them down to one. It was all going reasonably well - I’d logged all the cues, found a program that lets you import DVD footage via timestamp, was ready to import them into Adobe Premiere, WHEN — the audio format isn’t supported. I try everything: changing the bit rate, frequency, method of import, importing to Audition separately… You would think that with $3,000+ of production hardware and software sitting in front of me… But no. Only other option I had would have been to import the audio in real time through a separate source - and with 8 DVDs (148 tracks each) and a deadline of the next day… wasn’t going to happen.

Damnit, I need AVID…