October 19, 2007

October 19, 2007 Word Alien
Just purchased and installed Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 on the Alienware computer. I was using a trial version but it expired. I need Word 2007 to check word files from my online students in Ed 203 who are using Word 2007. Apparently two students are and I could not open their word files with the older versions of Word I had on the Mac and on the PC. Of course Word 2007 files could be saved in a version that the older versions could open, but that would be putting undue restrictions on how students can submit their assignments.

This has been a busy day of installations. I made a SuperDuper copy of the MacBook hard drive on to the firewire drive BT3. This will be my major hard drive for daily work (online courses and practical press). Someday I will get a new airport and attach a 500GB USB drive and put data on that drive that can then be accessed by any computer on line (Ed 602, Ed 603, Practical Press, and PracticalUpdate). I also should be able to access that wireless station with the Alienware computer (PC).
After doing a clean install of Mac OS X (tiger) on the MacBook hard drive, I will have plenty of room to install Final Cut Studio on that drive. Final Cut Studio requires 51 GB of disk space. After installing OS X on MacBook HD it had 17.9 GB used, 130.76 GB available (Total 148.73 GB). But before I installed Final Cut Studio 2 I went back to the BT3 drive, which has the original copy of Final Cut Studio installed on it and resurrect the files for the Passion For Grasses documentary I am working on. I will save the major clips as QuickTime files and then import the QuickTime files in to FCP Version 6. I am placing the files on the Summer 2007 firewire drive, which will also serve as the media drive for FCP6. The files I created are
1. BillsPrairieProject 2.26GB
2. BobsPrairieProject 3.39GB
3. BurntRootsTour 9.01GB
4. RudOnBurning 984.6 MB
5. RudsPrairieProject 5.03GB
6. AlsPrairieProject 3.09GB
I will also need audio files 52-56 for the audio on Al’s project.
I had originally put Final Cut Studio 2 on a firewire drive, but I Superdupered the OS on the MacBook HD to the disk, wiping it out but renamed it as BR150 and installed Parallels on it. I picked up a new copy of Windows XP Home Edition to put on that system. It worked out nicely so I decided to install Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007. That seemed to go well so now I am going to try again to download Dark Age of Camelot, starting with the 14 day free trial, which is now downloading. Tomorrow I will try to use FCP6 and work on the Passion For Grasses documentary. I also am watching instructional videos about FCP6 from Lynda.com on the G4.