But what's got me really riled up this morning is a client.  We send out approval copies of wedding videos and offer up to one hour of editing changes.  Most clients (about 80%) just approve it "as-is".  A few want a minor change or two - "take out the shot of Aunt Sarah", or perhaps, "Change the music used in the photo session.", etc. All very reasonable requests.

But this client wants a country and western song dropped smack dab into the middle of her wedding ceremony.  No, not a song that was actualyl sung at the ceremony - we'd have automatically included that.  Just drop a song over top the music that was actually played during the unity candle ceremony.  No matter that the song is nearly four minutes and the sequence is only one.  No matter that no one-minute part of this song will properly fit into that time slice, no matter where you set your fade-out.

I guess, if I do this work long enough, some day, someone is going to ask me to drop a Mickey Mouse cartoon between the ring ceremony and the kiss.  I guess I'd better be sure I have that added to my animation library, so I'll be prepared.

And then there's Symantec.  I bought the Norton 360, 3-PC package but now need to add two more PCs.  I contacted their support team (which only required half a day's time, a login so secure that the CIA would be impressed, and the patience of Job), asking for the best way to do this.  I fully expected they would have a page that would let you enter the number of PCs you wanted to protect, calculate the money difference, let me pay and go merrily about my business.  But no.  The response was to UNINSTALL Nortons from the three computers, request a refund, purchase their 5-PC license, then re-install on the first three PCs and install on the new two machines.  Whew!  Good thing I have nothing to do all day except uninstall and reinstall software, huh?

Back to my first Blu-ray burning, I let it render over-night, expecting to wake up to a hi-def Blu-ray DVD, ready to watch during breakfast.  Instead, an error message greeted me, saying something about the supposed duration time didn't jive with the start-end times.  So what?  "You're a computer - recalculate and fix it!".  But this computer, regardless of it's power and speed, did not seem to understand what I was shouting at it, and continued to keep the error message on the screen, in spite of my ranting.

I think I see my next article forming - "Trials and Tribulations - Burning My First Blu-Ray Video"! 

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