I was going to write a post about my cruddy experience with an iBook this week. A volunteer working at my school had a slideshow on her iBook that she wanted to share. So I sent her out to get a video dongle. She bought two, neither of which had the right configuration for either the iBook or the DLP. So I had her copy the preso to a flash drive. It wouldn’t let us run it on a Win-laptop because she had music from iTunes, and that machine did not have rights to the music (thank you for electronic licensing). I then tried to pull it into Adobe Premiere Elements to strip out the iTunes, and put some Creative Commons music in. For some reason, PE would NOT read the .mov file even though it says it supports the format. Maybe it was the music licensing? I have no idea. My final try was to convert the .mov to .avi or .wmv format using MMCovert, and ImTOO. MMCovert choaked, and ImTOO produced a movie that looked like it had been shot through clam chowder.
I find windows annoying in many ways, by way a platform that has such a small market share is SO closed is puzzling to me. Maybe they should look as Lessing preso on TED?
Thanks Dave for letting me blog on your site!