TCS - Special Projects Meeting

Special Projects Meeting

by Don Singleton
Tulsa Computer Society
From the September 1999 issue of the I/O Port Newsletter

I would like to appologize to Paula and the people who showed up for the August 2 Special Projects meeting to demonstrate how to actually use MGI's Photo Suite II. Neither of us realized that the product REQUIRED 800x600 screen resolution, and of course our projector can only handle 640x480. Paula did not run into the problem in her testing at home, because she uses 800x600 on her large monitor, and I was busy with other work both for TCS and APCUG, and did not get around to installing the program until the day of the show.

MGI VideoWave program also requires 800x600, so I don't see any way that we can expect anyone to do a program showing its full capabilities at the September 6 program, especially since it also requires a special video capture board in the computer which we do not have in Luggie.

There are some things that will work in PhotoSuite II, even on a 640x480 screen, and since there were so many interested in seeing it demonstrated, I will spend the time between now and September 6 to try to see what I can show, and what I cannot show. If there is someone with a video capture card who can bring me some clips on a ZIP disk or an LS120 Super Disk at one of the meetings between now and September 6, I will see if there is anything we can do with that program on 640x480 as well.

So the September 6 program will be devoted to exploring as much of both programs as possible, using 640x480. I feel sure that the programs can do a much better job at 800x600, and members will be able to use that mode on their computers at home - we just don't have the equipment to do it at our meetings.

And again I apologize to Paula for not realizing that the programs required a screen resolution we were unable to provide. She did a lot of work preparing for that meeting, and I regret that she was unable to show what she planned to show. It was not her fault.



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