Mar 30
Yesterday my wife and I found out we’re going to have another boy (we have one two year-old already) and we’re really excited about it. I come from a family of 15 children — 8 girls and 7 boys — and this will be my parents 15th grandchild — 11 boys and 4 girls — so this is pretty normal stuff for them. I’m excited for Dallin because he will have a sibling of the same gender close to his age. Though I have six brothers, they’re all much older or much younger than me so I grew up with mostly a bunch of sisters… that probably explains my sensitivity (or feminism or whatever)… I don’t know.
So anyway, if you were planning on making an appointment with me sometime during the first week of August, I’m sorry, but I don’t think it’s gonna happen. Will a few weeks later work for you?
Now, if I can just convince Heidi that we need to keep trying to have a girl… I don’t think that’ll be too hard.
Mar 13
So I want to capture my wedding video so I can do some editing and create a nice finished product (so when my wife wants to watch it, we can watch a 10-minute wrap-up instead of an hour and a half of snorrreee… WHAT, WHAT… oh, sorry, I feel asleep).
To capture the video, I have two options: 1) a USB video grabber (composite out on the VCR to USB) or 2) my Hauppauge video capture card (composite out on the VCR to composite-in on the capture card). You would think that the composite to composite would work best since there is no conversion, but if you did, you thought wrong. After hours of trying to get the video capture to work better through the video capture card, I just came to the conclusion that the USB video grabber works best.
The biggest problem I had with the capture card was capturing audio. I tried using four different video capture software programs but the only way to capture the audio was through either the line-in or the microphone jacks but no option to use the white and red composite jacks on the capture card. If there is no software that captures audio through these jacks, then what purpose do they serve? My best guess is that I just need to keep looking for software that does. Fortunately, I have a composite audio to 1/8″ audio plug so I could still do the capture but the quality of the audio isn’t very good.
In conclusion, in every test I did, the video capture through the USB video grabber worked best - for both video and audio capture.