Very frustrating day. Started with an appointment at the hospital to change the compression dressing on my leg. Necessary, painful with stinging iodine dressing and generally a waste of time.
Then a drive to recommended printers to do some Sonoma Dreams DVD covers – nope, their lowest print run is 500. Half hour gone. So I drive to Kinkos and print 25.. Another hour gone. The rest of the day was like that. Now I realize that to put the 40 mins. of DVD extras on the disc will need dual layer DVD blanks – which I don’t have. I can either scrap the new Kinko DVD covers, blot out the DVD extras on the printed covers or buy 25 dual layer disks. Groan…
Ho hum. Neither QuickTime 10, QT7, Compressor or even Adobe Media Encoder can make an H.264 version of Pinot. All I get is blackness and clicks. I made a two minute test section – that compressed easily but fell over with the long 75 min. version. Well at least, I managed to make a regular NTSC DVD of the latest Pinot.
In the middle of all this – phone calls to Sonoma Festival – dozens of emails – requests for minor free changes to ancient job, a two hour struggle to get comments onto Mary’s Web site. Then her Web menu vanished…
