Friday July 6

First, Lindsay I went over to the CRP to see the classroom where we will be teaching the video class. We tried installing the Linux video editor Cinelerra. I am not familiar with Linux so I had to rely on someone there do perform the installation. Unfortunately no one there was capable of installing it either. We spent a while trying to figure it out. I called Prof. Aires and we will get someone from the UFC to come down and install it Monday or Tuesday. I don't need it until Wednesday anyway.
Next we went to the Campus at Pici. I was still having difficulty exporting video from Cinelerra. It would be disappointing to create a project and not be able to export it. It took a while and I figured it out. If I load the .AVI files into media-convert.com and convert them to mpeg1, then they will import to Cinelerra without any problem. Then intead of export, I had to render the project into Raw DV files. This makes them compatible to show in Quicktime. It's a long process, but the best I've seen on Linux. Most of their programs have lots of bugs and crash quite frequently. It's been a challenge to create something with little resources, but that's the way life is usually.