Gordon's Tech

I have made  (2000)  several  (2004)  tries  (2012) at digitizing our family video but my lost best effort only got about 10% done. I figure...

Apple is killing QuickTime 7 ( download 22MB Snow Leopard version here) [1]. The announcement  has some useful references. So I’m back to ...

I’m old enough to remember when it was inexpensive and convenient to time shift football games. In the US and Canada that died with the anal...

My 94yo father lives in a veterans long term care facility located in Ste Anne de Bellevue, a small community at the west end of the island ...

As part of my  Father longterm care iPad videoconferencing project  I compared cellular data use during an approximately 5 minute videoconfe...

My father has been doing well in a Quebec long term care facility for veterans (in Canada that has historically meant WW II, he’s in his 90s...

In the process of slogging through an unexpected iMovie migration , I came across some old AVI files that iMovie 2013 basically swallows and...

Dilbert, 4/14/94 In retrospect, things started to go wrong for Apple 9 years ago. Back then Apple’s iPhoto, iMovie and iTunes were all run...

Remember the great American Digital TV Transition of 2008 ? Our elected representatives explained that while some would see more channels an...

In the final stage of my iPhoto 8 to Aperture 3.23 migration I imported my a 62 GB iPhoto Library of about 18,629 "Photos", of w...

The great thing about my home video archive project [1] is that there are always more pitfalls. I suppose it's a bit like golf that way...

I was infuriated by the data loss during iPhoto to Aperture migration, but that's nothing compared to iMovie HD to iMovie 11 migration [...

I came across this reading a well written response on the FCP discussion group : Squared 5 - MPEG Streamclip video converter for Mac and Win...

I'm in the midst of a bit of project from heck - assembling and managing our home video recordings. This comes to about 40 hours of anal...

The more  I study analog to digital video conversion and export compression the more I see I've left civilization. This is a domain of ...

it's been six years since I've had much good to say about Apple's OS X software (we miss you Avie ). So I'm mildly surprised...

Twelve years ago I was keen to digitize my home video tapes - on a 400 MHz Celeron system. Eight years ago I wrote "The thought of lo...

In a burst of foolish optimism, I volunteered to do some videos of our team pitchers and share them. This turned out to be much harder than...

My version of iMovie exports (09), by default, . m4v . (emphases mine) The M4V file format is a video file format developed by Apple and is ...

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was testing a Facetime videolink to my mother . It's not my first attempt. I'd tried Google Video...