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Valerie Sutton Date: Fri Mar 31, 2000 4:50 pm Subject: Re: SignWriting Report, March 30, 2000 | |
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On 3/30/00, Delora Parks wrote: >The .PDF format is becoming widely used in the business world, in part >because the Acrobat Reader is free. As with most computer technology these >days, I think a brochure-type document introducing SW would be extremely >helpful for those who are comfortable with using that medium, but frustrating >for those people who have limited exposure to downloading documents and >browsing the web. > >But, if it will save you any time at all Valerie, I say go for it! The work >only needs to be done once, and if it helps as few as 5 people, there's that >many less to arrange mailing packets to. ---------------------------- SignWriting List March 31, 2000 Thank you Delora, for this information about .PDF files. I am trying to reach as many people as possible, and at least .PDF is one well-known format...but you are correct...not everyone knows how to use it...so obviously it is only useful to a certain percentage of people... That is why I have been posting all of our pages as web pages, because then people can print those web pages and read them too, without having to learn about Adobe Acrobat. But then I had people write to complain that it took too much time to read everything on the web, and couldn't I create .PDF files? So you can see...you can't win!! The same happened yesterday in my attempt to view the professional video footage I received from the Albuquerque presentation....as you may know, the professional video world is slowly making a transition from the older technology for high quality video, called BetacamSP or 1-Inch....(the editing machines cost $100,000.00 and up..some video production companies have spent over a million dollars on equipment alone)...to the Digital Video world, which has brought non-linear editing down to $10,000 for the editing equipment - what a difference! So I went to this studio yesterday with our Digital Video masters, only to find that the professional studio had purchased the Digital Video equipment recently, but because the format is new for them, they hadn't set the equipment up yet! They informed me that they could whip off the expensive BetacamSP format for me in a day, but coordinating the old and new equipment is a transition for them and I was the first one to request what I requested...so a meeting that should have taken a half hour (and would have if we were using the old equipment), ended up taking three hours as these technicians informed me of the technical changes and after awhile I got so exhausted and had to go home! So when I was leaving, I told them I felt badly to force them into this new stuff...and they said they were grateful because they have no choice anyway! So this "Information Age" is nuts, isn't it?!! Anyway, no matter what, I am definitely moving all our work to Digital Video, but it is a transition for me. I have closet fulls of BetacamSP tapes from all our old TV work with SignWriting over the years...those tapes will slowly deteriorate in time, just sitting there, and so in time I will need to transfer them all to Digital Video masters... And then we all know that in another decade, there will be another new format, that no one can predict right now! Smile.... Val ;-) ----------------------------- Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org SignWriting List Archives: https://www.egroups.com/group/sw-l SignWriting List Help web page address coming soon ;-) |
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