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I put this tabbed interface together to show either isolated pieces of a single video or several separate video clips, together with captions. The way the interface is set up, you can use the captions
Continue readingYou can look this up anywhere, but I find myself looking it up often enough that I thought I’d post it here. To make an automatic redirect, simply add this to the head section of
Continue readingIf you purchase the MS Producer resource disk available here HERE you will find it contains an example of a Captioned Video template, along with this white paper captioning in Producer (MS Word format)
I found the one captioning template on the CD (captioned video with fixed-size slides) was a good beginning but quickly realized I needed several others. I made two more, which can be downloaded below. To use these templates, unzip them, and put the entire folders into the Producer templates directory on your C drive.
Within Producer, they will show up within the Templates area as:
“Standard Captioned Audio – Resizable Slides” Download Zip File (36K)
and “Standard Captioned Video (320×240) – Resizable Slides” Download Zip File (36K))
In Camtasia Studio, previews of the project I was working on were showing up incorrectly or not at all. The problem would start after a few minutes of editing clips in the timeline. The preview
Continue readingIn IE, borders created by styling a table cell with “border-top” attribute do not show up when used on a td tag, unless there is some content inside the cell, at least a non-breaking space. This is not the case in other browsers – the border will show up even when the cell is blank.
In the example below, there is a single table, with three columns and three rows, but only the first 2 rows contain anything. The last row is completely empty. The tag “td” has been styled with
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border-top-width: 2px;
border-top-style: solid;
border-top-color: #003399;
When using an LCD projector with a laptop to display a web page containing embedded video, the video shows up on the laptop, but not on the projected image on screen. According to “Projector People“,
Continue readingI did a little research into why we now only have two (no, make that one!) suppliers of flu vaccine for the entire US, and why that supply is available only through the government. If the authors quoted below are correct, perhaps current policy needs to be revised.
I’ve heard various politicians and administrators lately (most recently Tommy Thompson) telling us how the flu vaccine shortage is not a public health problem, and people questioning how dangerous the flu can be. I have to disagree with them – for anyone who has asthma or respiratory diseases, or simply doesn’t have a lot of defense against the flu, ithe possibility of getting a bad case of the flu can be a pretty scary prospect.
Continue readingAfter a recent disk crash I had to reinstall the OS, including Safari. Naturally I wanted to import my old bookmarks into Safari, but for some reason, they left the import feature out of the
Continue readingAfter reinstalling OS X, I was having trouble with a KDX client being disconnected every 15 minutes or so, despite the fact that “regularly ping servers” was on. It turned out that in reinstalling, the
Continue readingonclick windows media player properties player.controls.stop() doesn’t work doesn’t respond to stop command
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