SOS: Technical Support Needed
By Antonio D. French
As I am sometimes forced to do, I'm pulling out the ol' Bat-signal. Send aid, my techie brothers and sisters!
Yesterday I shot about two hours of great video, which I was planning to post over the next few days. I mean really good stuff here. Combest would've loved it.
But when I came back to edit it... (pause for effect)... disaster.
Dropping audio. Choppy video. WTF?! (See this video as an example.)
See, when I was running low on tape, I switched from SP to LP, allowing me 90 minutes of tape time instead of just 60. The bit I taped at SP (60 mins) is just fine, but the rest — and of course this was the best stuff too — is all messed up.
I use a Canon GL1 and Sony MiniDV tapes. Can I take the tape somewhere and have it imported on a different deck? Is there something I can do in Final Cut Pro?
Any suggestions?Labels: Tech_Support
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Technical Support
By Antonio D. French
Okay, my techno-savvy brothers and sisters:
We have for some time been considering a move from Blogger to WordPress. We designed the custom template you are seeing now all by ourselves (in that respect, Blogger's simplicity is very nice), but WordPress' CSS programming mumbo jumbo is über intimidating.
Can anyone out there build us (or modify) a WordPress template to match the look of our current one?
And while we're making our Christmas wish list public here; we're also in the market for a used cordless microphone... And a decent camera flash... And a Nintendo Wii... And investors for a big project we're working on.
Okay, forget the Wii.Labels: Tech_Support
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Technical Support
By Antonio D. French
Okay, this message goes out to our more techno-knowledgeable readers. We're looking for a new host for our websites. Any recommendations? (And don't say Sectorlink. We hate them now.)Labels: Tech_Support
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Technical Support
By Antonio D. French
We need a little help. A minor, but annoying, bug in our site has been eating away at us for way too long.
We use Macs mostly and if we have to use a PC, we use Firefox to surf the Web. So we rarely get to see the bug ourselves. But last week we were reminded of the less-that-perfect experience of PC owners who use Microsoft's incredibly unsafe Internet Explorer when our site was featured on Fox News.
There we were on TV in all our orange and black glory, but then as the reporter scrolled to the top of our page (gasp) we were shockingly incomplete.
The problem is that in most modern browsers (Safari and Firefox) we look like this. But in IE we look like this. Notice the difference? A piece of our background image doesn't show up, instead revealing a thick chuck of our orange background.
Any of you techies have a clue how we can fix that?
UPDATE: Fixed! Thanks, Ben Smith.Labels: Tech_Support
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As I am sometimes forced to do, I'm pulling out the ol' Bat-signal. Send aid, my techie brothers and sisters!
