Jan 10 2009
Mississippi Rose Lee documentary and some random stuff
This is a short documentary style piece I did several months ago on my friend and former teacher Roz Wilcox a.k.a. Mississippi Rose Lee. She’s a Clarksdale, MS artist and blues singer.
So it’s been awhile since I posted last. Here’s something completely random for you, in case you might ever need to know. If you happen to have an analog video camera and it has AV ports (to hook up to the TV with the cord with the yellow and red ends) you are able to capture it’s footage into the computer. You will need a converter device that will take the AV information and turn in into the 1’s and 0’s the computer likes to read. There is a device called a dazzle that will do this that is sold by Pinnacle software. I’m sure there are other such devices by other companies, that just happens to be the one that I have and how I was able to capture the video from my old Super8 camera. The camera I have now has a firewire port (it calls itself an iLink but it’s the same thing) but my computer does not. The dazzle hooks up to the computer through a USB port and the camera hooks to the dazzle with the AV cord. There is some loss in quality going through the USB port but it’s better than having to sit around with two VCRs and edit linearly. Something I’ve never done but something I don’t feel particularly inclined to ever experiencing.
