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Have downloaded Sony Vegas for the second time, and currently on a trial run. Trying to recreate(more or less) the Brian Joubert montage I created in Windows Movie Maker, although this is made harder by the latter program crashing. If I succeed and it saves to a usable movie file, I'll shell out the money and make it my permanent video editor. Except I think I may in fact still be on the trial run that started with my first attempt at downloaded it weeks ago, which means I have to do this pretty fast. I really want to be sure it saves to movie file before I pay. Although a comment from a vidder on my Twitter feed that she thinks most vidders are using it nowadays is encouraging, at least.
Thursday night was an interesting adventure. Initially my sister and I believed our show to be in Shirlington, and I found a bus that went there directly from the Pentagon, so we met there and dined in the revamped version of the Chinese restaurant that was once our go-to place for Christmas. Then we discovered the venue had moved to Crystal City. Good thing curtain wasn't until eight! We got there, was lucky in parking, met up with a pair of her friends who were also attending the show, and with rain starting to fall were glad the new location was in Crystal City's underground level, and could be walked to in the tunnels.
The show was entertaining. The Acro-cats are a group of cats owned by one woman who trained them using a clicking device and a *lot* of treats to do things like jump through hoops and balance on balls, as well as a couple of tricks that were truly spectacular. That is, when the cats felt like doing them. Occasionally they preferred to wander off the stage or sit on the footlights. Which was when the show was at its most entertaining; we all laughed out heads off. Photos were allowed throughout the show, and at the end we were invited on stage to take more photos and pet the one cat that didn't mind being petted by strangers.
We got out with the rain mild, and my sister agreed to give everyone rides home. En route the deluge hit. We noted as we got on Jefferson Davis Highway that the name of said road really needed to be changed, but by the time we got off it had-to Jefferson Davis River. It was a slow trip home, though thankfully things lightened up *slightly* before it was time to drop me off, so I avoided getting *totally* drenched.
Still raining today, with varying levels of intensity. Good day for staying in and vidding. At least when I next feel like dealing with my current two video editors.
Thursday night was an interesting adventure. Initially my sister and I believed our show to be in Shirlington, and I found a bus that went there directly from the Pentagon, so we met there and dined in the revamped version of the Chinese restaurant that was once our go-to place for Christmas. Then we discovered the venue had moved to Crystal City. Good thing curtain wasn't until eight! We got there, was lucky in parking, met up with a pair of her friends who were also attending the show, and with rain starting to fall were glad the new location was in Crystal City's underground level, and could be walked to in the tunnels.
The show was entertaining. The Acro-cats are a group of cats owned by one woman who trained them using a clicking device and a *lot* of treats to do things like jump through hoops and balance on balls, as well as a couple of tricks that were truly spectacular. That is, when the cats felt like doing them. Occasionally they preferred to wander off the stage or sit on the footlights. Which was when the show was at its most entertaining; we all laughed out heads off. Photos were allowed throughout the show, and at the end we were invited on stage to take more photos and pet the one cat that didn't mind being petted by strangers.
We got out with the rain mild, and my sister agreed to give everyone rides home. En route the deluge hit. We noted as we got on Jefferson Davis Highway that the name of said road really needed to be changed, but by the time we got off it had-to Jefferson Davis River. It was a slow trip home, though thankfully things lightened up *slightly* before it was time to drop me off, so I avoided getting *totally* drenched.
Still raining today, with varying levels of intensity. Good day for staying in and vidding. At least when I next feel like dealing with my current two video editors.