I HAVE DSL!!!

[leighblack]

You have no idea how happy this makes me. I can have two tabs loading at once and my internet doesn't freeze up!!! =)

*goes off to download things*

ETA: I just downloaded an entire CD in 6 minutes! Wheeeee!

Comments

[terkey.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Welcome to the world of high-speed.

[leighblack.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I have to say I enjoy it muchly.

[terkey.livejournal.com]

How can you not? I know I can never go back to dial-up. The first time I heard that evil grinding sound of a connection trying to be made, I'd have to destroy something.

[leighblack.livejournal.com]

I don't know. It wasn't so bad. I made it 3 1/2 years on my dial up.

[terkey.livejournal.com]

I made it a long time, too, it's just I've gotten so used to being able to download a song in minutes or seconds rather than hours. And I love that I'm always connected, and don't have to wait for a connection to be made everytime I hit an outside link from some program or need to register something or search for a driver or anything. What can I say, I'm addicted to the instant life now.

[dazeebean.livejournal.com]

Congrats!!

Man I don't know how you managed 3 1/2 years??!

I remember when my parents still had dial-up and I thought it was pretty good when it didn't boot me off like twice in an hour. But as soon as they got boradband...OMG!!! So welcome, welcome...yeah faster downloads. I seem to remember an 8minute video or something would take about 6 hours! Now...45 seconds!

BTW? What does ETA stand for??

[leighblack.livejournal.com]

There was something on my phone line that disconnected my dial-up every 6 hours, but otherwise I never got booted off. I was pretty lucky!

ETA = edited to add =)

[dazeebean.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah I remember you saying that when you were helping taylorea with her website;)

ETA...learn something new every day!

Kewl.

[rikkisixx.livejournal.com]

so i know youve been able to make mini movie icons from videos youve downloaded or had sent to you
my friend just learned how to do it from dvd, how if it CAN be explained, does one do it from mpg files?

[leighblack.livejournal.com]

I assume you just need to know how to get the animation, not how to make the whole icon. The easiest way is to use Animation Shop 3, because you can open the mpeg right into it. No capping or anything needed. (If you don't have AS3, you can get a free trial.)

The trick is that you can only open a certain number of frames of the mpeg, otherwise the program will freeze up and die. So, if you have a video splitting program, you can isolate the chunk of the mpeg you want to use and delete the rest of it. If not, it's just more time consuming, because you have to open it a section at a time.

Open AS3. Go to file>open and search for your mpeg. A little screen will open that asks how many frames you want to open. I usually open 200 at a time, but if the frames are really big, you might need to open less than that. Once you have your frames opened, you can go through the animation and see if these are the frames you want. You can delete frames off. You can save certain frames as images. If these aren't the frames you want, close it and reopen with the next 200 frames.

Once you have the frames you want opened in AS3, you can use them for your mini-movie. If you need help with making the icon itself, try looking through these tutorials: http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=icon_tutorial&keyword=Movie+%28mini-movie%29+Icons&filter=all

Does that make any sense? It's really easy once you figure it out.

P.S. I still have your CDs sitting here. I'll try to mail them out next week!