Rawr!!!

[capnvic]

Originally Posted by hannahsauce

Well, right now Fay is closing in on our particular town of Okeechobee... and the Lake. It's coming fast and strong, half of the county is out of power. Here at the house we are getting alot of brown outs... nothing severe yet.. but the way the storm is intensifying.. we may be out of power soon. We are lucky here that we have the hurricane windows YAY! But it looks bad outside, there are trees and powerlines and stuff everywhere! I will keep you updated!

Batten down the hatches, the weather channel said wind gusts around the lake were over 80 mph. Storm warnings all the way up to my old stomping grounds at Flagler Beach.

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by capnvic

Flagler Beach.

Vic,
I was just there Sunday. We go to Flagler Beach every weekend we're in San Mateo, it's our home beach. I love the drive along the ocean shore, you can't get that anywhere but Flagler. Let's pray the storm doesn't take anymore of the beach!

Jim

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by madjim

Vic,
I was just there Sunday. We go to Flagler Beach every weekend we're in San Mateo, it's our home beach. I love the drive along the ocean shore, you can't get that anywhere but Flagler. Let's pray the storm doesn't take anymore of the beach!

Jim

Ok. I pulled my head out of my hole and see that the storm is coming from the west. Flagler Beach is safe.

Jim

[hannahsauce]

Ok we made it through the storm... WOW? It hung out over us like Frances did! No damage just alot of wind and rain!

[madjim- with the Lord]

GOOD NEWS! I hope our place in San Mateo is okay, we'll see next weekend, I'm sure it's allright.

A question for you about your problem not seeing Hoster, have you changed your screen resolution recently or worked with your video card?

Jim

[capnvic]

Now the Fla panhandle and southern GA residents will have to worry.....If the storm goes back over the gulf watch out Alabama too!

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by capnvic

Now the Fla panhandle and southern GA residents will have to worry.....If the storm goes back over the gulf watch out Alabama too!

Here in Valdosta GA the skies are dark and restless. No rain yet today so I think it's the calm before the storm. We'll see!

Jim

[hannahsauce]

I wish everyone the best and will keep you in my prayers wherever that storm ends up! I upgraded to hoster 4.3 just about 20 mins ago and its working fine now! I have a really silly question.... everyone keeps talking about importing video... what exactly are you guys talking about? Is there Karaoke with video with it?? If so, how do I get some of that??

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by hannahsauce

I wish everyone the best and will keep you in my prayers wherever that storm ends up! I upgraded to hoster 4.3 just about 20 mins ago and its working fine now! I have a really silly question.... everyone keeps talking about importing video... what exactly are you guys talking about? Is there Karaoke with video with it?? If so, how do I get some of that??

Right now you have to use the Video button to load a video into the playlist. In the future we will import our videos into Hoster so videos will be in the database and show up in the seach window. They will be HDVID files. By importing our videos, they will show up in our songbooks as well.

The only karaoke video I have was made from a Sound Choice disc with Media Clog on it. It wouldn't import so I video taped it and converted it to a wmv file. Some folks used lasar discs that they have converted to a video format.

It's all good stuff.

I hope this helps.

Jim

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by hannahsauce

I have a really silly question.... everyone keeps talking about importing video... what exactly are you guys talking about? Is there Karaoke with video with it?? If so, how do I get some of that??

VCD (Video CD). Karaoke tracks with a video behind it - usually a cheesy video whose plot may or may not have anything to do with the song premis. Just like the old laser karaoke disk except it's on a standard cdrom that your computer can read. They are far more popular in Asia and Europe than here in the US.
The best ones in my opinion is the Original Footage brand that uses live footage and music videos from the 60's and 70's performing the songs with the karaoke in nearly perfect sync to the artist performing it. They only made about a dozen disks with about 12 songs each.
United Artist Video is another good brand, they put out about 30 disks. Most everything else is hit or miss in my opinion. They are usually multiplexed so you can turn the vocals on or off.
Acekaraoke sells them as well as a number of others.
You can get them on DVD too but those require special ripping software and some work to get them to your hardrive. VCD are as easy as open the disk and drag and drop.
VCD's will also play in many karaoke players (JVC, RSQ) as well as many DVD players.

Sam