Still no word...but then some
Monday, April 30, 2007As of 4:00pm, I’ve not heard back from my realtor. I did talk to him earlier today, but he was sick this weekend, and sounded sicker than a dog when I talked to him. So, I guess I’ll wait till tomorrow and see what happens.
Went for a ride yesterday (17.1 miles, 1:01:36)
Well, just after 5:00 Chad called, saying that the seller accepted my offer! Now the paperwork goes to the banker to see if they will accept the terms and get things in order. A sigh of relief in there for me.
Update later in the day (10:08 to be more precise.)
As you know I now have a Mac. Interestingly, I also just found out today that the DVD’s that I’ve been making don’t play very well on this machine. I don’t think it’s the computer’s fault - it’s a dual core 2.33, 2gb ram - it should be able to play a DVD, and in fact does a nice job on other DVD’s.
What I found out, after a few hours of playing around (if you call it playing…) is that the encoder I’ve been using (ProCoder2) doesn’t do a good job for playback on the Mac for whatever reason (this is just by trial / error, not some whitepaper on the web.) But, I’ve found out that encoding with Autodesk’s Cleaner does a good job for the Mac. I originally bought Cleaner, but didn’t use it because it didn’t save the Closed Captioning data when encoding the files, where Procoder did. But, I now have Scenarist, which enables me to put CC in later, so that’s not needed.
I’ve not been able to get Cleaner to work well on the Mac (I encoded files several times, but Scenarist won’t accept them) and I figure if the default DVD setting doesn’t work, I’m not going to take the time to try and fix it. I’m waiting for a Windows version of Cleaner to see what that does.
It’s frustrating when these companies make programs that just don’t work. I’m sure it works for them, but that doesn’t help me much!
