I was extremely proud of myself on Thursday at uni when I managed to google a program that would convert my .mov files to .wmv files (a month ago it would have all been lost on me, and my husband would have to do it). However, I was very disappointed when... after spending hours locating a program that would do it, downloading it onto a uni computer, and then putting my files through it... they came out with a bright-red watermark across them saying that they had been converted using a certain program. I know that it said that there would be a watermark, but I was thinking more like those very pale ones you see sometimes on Google Images.
Anyway.... then I decided to convert them at home, and cut them into the professional development video we had started to make in Movie Maker at uni. Not so simple! Why is it that each different Windows operating system has a different version of Movie Maker? Having completed half of our video at uni, I thought it would be easily completed within a couple of hours, but NO.... my system is Windows 7, which uses Movie Maker Live, while Katie has XP on her computer, and that uses a different version.
So. What have I learned? 1) I am capable of locating a useful program through Google. 2) I should read the fine print carefully. 3) Don't expect technology to work the first time every time. 4) Don't expect that just because it's technology, it's going to make your life simple. 5) What is common sense to one, is not necessarily to another..
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