{"id":253,"date":"2007-05-26T13:01:49","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T19:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/26\/time-consuming\/"},"modified":"2007-05-26T13:01:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-26T19:01:50","slug":"time-consuming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/26\/time-consuming\/","title":{"rendered":"Time consuming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at home, alone. Shirley is working, Scott is gone. It&#8217;s quiet, and the morning is almost gone. I&#8217;ve had many cups of coffee as I work on a building a presentation for Monday. <\/p>\n<p>I have the bulk of the presentation material and I&#8217;m just creating two custom slides. How long can it take? Longer that I&#8217;d like. One slide has a lot of animation. Yeah, I know, not a good move for a presentation, but it should work and be a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>The harder one has been lifting a mySpace video in FLV format and converting it to something I can put into Powerpoint. Well, after 3 hrs of hacking around and getting video with no audio, audio with no video and video with audio that sounds like the chipmunks, and getting some help from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=623946783\">friend<\/a> I bought some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flash-video-mx.com\/flv_to_video_web\/\">FLV to AVI software<\/a>. Free is not always better and the demo version worked for me quick &amp; easy. So, it&#8217;s a company expense because this was all about a company presentations.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mySpace\" rel=\"tag\">mySpace<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/FLV\" rel=\"tag\">FLV<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/AVI\" rel=\"tag\">AVI<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/FLV%20to%20AVI\" rel=\"tag\">FLV to AVI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at home, alone. Shirley is working, Scott is gone. It&#8217;s quiet, and the morning is almost gone. I&#8217;ve had many cups of coffee as I work on a building a presentation for Monday. I have the bulk of the presentation material and I&#8217;m just creating two custom slides. How long can it take? Longer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grab-bag","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}