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It's a wonderful day for reflection. The sun is out and the clouds are light and wispy. So many great men and women have given so much for us to have the freedom and opportunities we have today. Thank You.

On a separate note I spent a lot of last week working on a project in iMovie and iDVD. A few hints. First, make your iMovie into seperate movies that will be independent chapters in iDVD. This will speed the rendering process in iDVD and will enable you to lock down changes in one segment without having to re-encode later.

In iDVD my findings have been similar to Ken Stone's. You must let it background encode all video before making a DVD. While I never ruined a DVD blank, I did find that every time the process would hang and if I watched TOP it would become stuck and non-responsive.

This has been a heads down coding and production weekend. More than 200 photos and several hours of video have gone into the production of Justin's graduation video. It's been a fun project but for the first time I find myself considering a dual processor system. The x-serve is great but how well it runs as the primary desktop I'm not sure. Other notes include problems with the Contour Shuttle-Pro. For whatever reason it won't believe that I want to move forward a frame at a time. The other half the weekend included lots of PHP work and cleaning up several trees from the backyard. It's a large pile. More to come soon.