Today was the deadline for making submissions to the Frans de Jongprijs 2005 (Schermen met letters). In order to participate, submissions had to be delivered at Museum Meermanno before 17:00.
I finished the little movie I made for this event (Schermen met woorden) months ago, but it would only run properly on Mac OS X with Quicktime Pro. Sufficient at the time, but as we were told (at the academy) we shouldn�t be expecting too much tech-savvyness from the museum people, I realized I needed a better solution.
As I got out of bed around noon, I had several hours left to come up with one [better solution], and deliver the goods.
The first thing I had to make sure of was that I had a version of the movie that would run smoothly on a Windows machine (pc with Microsoft os). I opened the original file in Flash, and looked at the various export methods. I figured avi would be my best bet, but I did�t dare using any codec compression (remembering the words of my teachers).
I knew the thing was going to be rather big, and probably wouldn�t fit an empty CD-ROM. (It would turn out to be a little over a giga byte.) That, and the fact that my CD-writer seems to be broken anyway, made me decide to head into town and pick up a DVD-writer. This might seem like a rather drastic move, but the price money is a thousand euros, and I could use a DVD-writer anyway.
I went to Media Markt, picked up a [LITE-ON] SOHW - 1653S and two stacks of empty DVDs, and headed back home.
I took the regular DVD-player out of my tower, jammed in the DVD-writer, and booted the system. XP did its Plug and Play dance, and�after installing the Nero software that came with it�I could start burning discs again.
First I made a real
DVD that I could play in any good ol� DVD player, and then I made a disk with both the mov as the avi version. I tested the two discs and all three versions (both on pc as tv), filled in the submission form, and headed out.
On my way to the museum, I called Casper becauses I was wondering whether he already had submitted his project (which, I think, is very cool), plus, I had missed his call the night before. The first thing he said, was that I should remember to submit my project, which�I replied�was funny because I was calling for the same thing, and was on my way to just that myself.
It appeared I had called at the right time, because he was still at work, and wouldn�t be free untill 17:30 (which�of course�is half an hour later than the deadline.) Also, the place he works at (LJS), was practically on my way. He asked me whether I�d be able to pick up his project and deliver it at the museum. I told him I�d be right there.
After looking at some of the toys (PowerBook G4, 23? Cinema Display, etc.), (sorta) making plans to go out next week, and receiving an envelope with his project, I continued on my way.
Not for long though � after several meters, I ran into Sebastiaan, who I hadn�t seen for ages. We chit-chatted for a bit, but then we really had to continue our respective ways.
Approaching the museum, I saw one of my classmates. Obviously, he was just on his way back from delivering his project. (Friggin� slackers!) We greeted, but now didn�t seem like the right time for me to stop walking and talk about � well, anything.
I entered the museum, and guess what? Another classmate. (Okay, she�s from the parallel class, but still.) See, mom? I�m not the only one doing this last-minute!
Anyway. So that was it then. The wait is on.
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