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So much has happened in my web world since the last entry. I bought the Adobe Creative 3 Production Premium suite and wow things started happening. It makes processing and making movies a reality. In 1996 I spend three weeks, yes, three weeks, making a five minute video. The rendering time was 5 hours. I turned it on, went to bed, and got up in the morning to find if my video made it through. Now that time is almost one for one, or five minutes for a five minute video. Anyway I have gotten up to speed and now can concentrate on content instead of the learning curve. Today I made the video page and inserted five flash videos into it. I am going with flash because I can get about one megabyte for one minute of video with sound and with good quality. Flash is also more flexible than windows media files and allows one to build transparent figures talking in a web page as found in the rovion.com site. I have duplicated all they can do there using off the shelf software. I do not know how this can be done with windows media or if it can be done. For an 8 hour course flash videos come to 480 megabytes which is affordable. It is my own style and I like it better than the stuff I see in so many pages. So many web developers are using boilerplates from the software they use that I think they forgot how to really develop from scratch.

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Time does pass quickly when you are busy. I have been doing a lot of learning about flash and making those transparent movies you see in web pages. I purchased the Adobe full package and have set up a blue screen and in process of putting those transparencies in power point slides for the 2008 NEC change course. This is a lot of work and I don't know if it is worth it, but it is now an obsession with me and I am doing it.
I started some radio transmission type broadcasts with music and code changes. I will see how they work out with the logs. I think there still is not enough bandwidth liberty for the music and will probably go with just the code changes and leave the music out.
I also have redone the electrical safety film and put it in to a flash video. The new electrical accident film was also done in flash video format and windows media format at the bottom of the page.
Weather is about 10 below zero (F) here in North Pole, Alaska with about 6 inches of snow so far. It has been a very mild winter so far.