{ Yesssss }

Imagine that in the best Napolean Dynamite voice I can muster. :) I cracked into the code for the Martina video that I was hoping to use today. It's a little late but better late than never. :) I'll leave it up through tomorrow because it deserves a full day of it's own. Beautiful song and the video is perfect for the season. I'm thinking about making it a Martina McBride week since I have like 6 or 7 more Martina videos in my to-play list. :)

Now if only I could figure out how to use one of the TWO versions of Nickelback's Photograph song in my convention slide show. I've got all the photos arranged, ready to pull it all together and I can't get the song to work. :( The mp4 from itunes doesn't work cuz it's apparently TOO advanced. Even tried saving it to a CD and then grabbing it from there but no dice. Then I figured instead of burning up another disk I could just as well buy a new version from walmart. Well, it's a different format too (WMA maybe?) and they put all these restrictions on their music files so I can't even use it. I totally bought it for that one use and it won't work. Now I'm all for the music industry being able to get paid for their art but when they restrict it to the point that I as a consumer can't even use it for a personal home video, that's kindof a crock.

I'll move on for now to a new slide show I wanted to work on of Jacob. My brother created one for the funeral using Chris Rice's Untitled Hymn but I wanted to do one that's more about the family's perspective/story using Natalie Grant's song 'Held'. Probably with a mix of photos and scrapbook pages and maybe some verses throughout. Fortunately I have the good old-fashioned CD for this song so I shouldn't run into any issues with that.

Comments

[lisa]

what a pain! to have everything going great with a slideshow, everything in order, and then the music won't work!! i hear ya- that's happened to me too :( i hope you can get things resolved soon, that would be a great slideshow! sounds like the one for Jacob is gonna be so beautiful! if you are willing to share, i'd like to see it.
this video is beautiful. i'll be thankin' ya for the tears this morning shawn and watching out for more martina videos ;)!

[Helen]

Shawn! Try burning the song to a disk (the wal-mart one) that is exactly where I buy mine to use too. I know the audio part of the slideshow is a pain in the butt, I wish I knew more about audio files :( You *should* be able to burn the song to disk and then bring it back into Proshow (if that's what your using) from CD. BTW, you got me back for my Martina video.... sniff... gotta love her for a good cry huh?

[Kari]

Did you change the burn properties in iTunes to MP3? I sometimes forget to do that... I can't wait to see this slideshow!