Month: September 2003

A gallery of Drupal themes

Posted on September 28, 2003 by ellen

Note: the themes shown in this gallery are now largely outdated. Visit The Drupal Theme Garden to see the current themes in action.

To see which themes are currently available and which are up to date, see the version numbers under each theme on the Downloads page on the Drupal.org site

This is a gallery of screenshots of the themes available for Drupal, an open-source platform and content management system for building dynamic web sites. Drupal is available here.

Click any image to see an enlarged view.

ADC – Viewed on Safari

Almaw – Viewed on IE Mac

Where to go when you have Final Cut Pro questions or problems

Posted on September 26, 2003 by ellen

I’ve found these forums to be particularly useful in helping me solve my Final Cut Pro 4 issues. Apple.com’s FCP discussions Ken Stone’s Final Cut Pro Creative Cow Forums MacFixit.com

Final Cut Pro v. 4 Log and Capture problem

Posted on September 26, 2003 by ellen

When I installed Final Cut Pro v. 4, I lost all ability to Log and Capture. Not just in Final Cut v.4, but also in the older version 3 which was left on the drive

In search of closed captioning on web video

Posted on September 20, 2003 by ellen

In the web environment I develop for – a busy hospital – having some kind of captioning on presentations that include an audio track is not optional. Videos and narrated presentations are watched in common areas, and it’s not always possible to locate a pair of headphones or even convenient to use them if there are other things going on in the room that need to be heard.

There are also a few people with hearing disabilities that need the captions. So I’ve been searching for a captioning method for all our streaming video that is efficient, and creates web-based video that is compatible with Windows and Macintosh computers.

Although the Virage system will be ideal for this (voice recognition and screen-scraping create searchable, linked chunks of text associated with the exact locations in the video where they occurred.), it will not be in place soon enough.

Creating captions on VHS/DVD formats would be a nice capability, as well.

MS Producer 2003 – report so far

Posted on September 8, 2003 by ellen

A long awaited update to Microsoft Producer is here. Producer 2003 is available from: Final Release Candidate of Producer 2003 Producer is a free app that allows you to synch Powerpoint presentations with video, html,