I haven't thoughtfully checked my e-mail in days. I've been toally wrapped up in trying to put together 4 VCDs worth of Depeche Mode video clips, as I've downloaded them from depechemode.com. The encoding process to convert the QuickTime files to MPEG-1 files takes about 10 minutes for each 1 minute of video. So it's taken a while. Worse, I haven't found a way to encode a folder full of files, so I'm reduced to baby-sitting the 80-odd files, getting each encoded one by one.

However, I'm making headway. Disc 1 (1981-1989) and Disc 2 (1990 - 1999) are done. I've got the VCD version burned and the individual MPEG encoded video streams burned onto a Mac/PC hybrid disc. It looks like there will be a 2000-2001 Disc A and Disc B, as I've got enough material for more than 1 hour of playback.

I'm thinking of trading these VCDs with other Mode fans. I might be able to get some good quality captures of the early Mode music videos.

But what I'd really like to do is get a cheap LaserDisc player ($60 at Stuff) and get my Devotional LD burned to VCD, along with Strange Too. As well I need to rent a good quality VHS player that I can hook up to my Mac to capture Strange which has yet to come out in a digital format.

All of this will take time of course, but I'll get to it at some point.

I'm been going through blank CD-Rs like a madman. I really need to get another CaseLogic CD Booklet. I really like these 48 pocket versions. So far I've got one for Music and one for everything else. I think I need another one to hold the VCDs and other media 'projects'.

"Such as?" Such as a set of Nick Cave concert recordings that I have on CD-R that I need to cut into tracks and get some cover art designed for. The Goodson list (which I haven't posted to in years) recently had a thread regarding delinquent projects, and this was one of them.

Not that I've read my mail lately.

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