Yet Another Delay

The show that was scheduled for Friday, Jan 30 was once again called off because of technical difficulties. We will try again next week, Friday, February 6.

Progress Report

Danielle Maloney of Panda TV sent me the video of the show that she and Matt had put together with a tremendous amount of editing. Piecing everything together, each component of my broadcast, they created a beautiful version of Alan's Italy Show # 104. Considering the small amount of time we spent on the project, they did a magnificent job!! I would first like to thank them for a great job. There were a few problems with the synchronization of the voice with the photos, but all in all it was quite wonderful. I decided to do the same show on my usual broadcast medium, Woodstock Public Access Television and compare. That WPAT version is scheduled to air live on Friday, Jan 30. Then I will have the dilemma of which to upload to Youtube. I may place both, and let my viewing audience compare the two, but not sure as yet. Some feedback from my viewing audience would be helpful, but that ain't happening!!!!!

Thus, this Friday I may be back on the air in the usual way and I am very excited. That studio will be yet another broadcasting challenge for any WPAT producer, small, cold, shakes with the wind, but, sigh, home sweet home! Then I will probably return to my usual one show every two weeks. Although I now have a supply of about 6 or 7 shows, that will run out fast if I try to do too much too fast. I spent the entire day yesterday working on honing shows and planning for future ones. Then hopefully we will return to Italy at the end of May and create more.

I hope you get to see show # 104 some time Friday evening on Youtube.

Back on the Air (I hope)

Ellen just called to tell me we are scheduled to be in the temporary studio on Fri, January 30, 2015. Alan's Italy may be on the air, live and on Youtube once again!!! If so I am going with Show # 104: Monterosso al Mare, Part 2 featuring Bar Colpi di Timone and the interview with the owner, Giancarlo Basso. If we are really producing our first show in 3 months, then expect a new video on Youtube sometime soon afterward. Meanwhile, we are gradually approaching 20,000 Youtube views. Probably in a few weeks at the current rate. We are also approaching 8,000 reads on the blog. Stay tuned!!!

Good News

After spending two hours with the people at the PandaTV studio, it appears that I will be able to create more shows using their facilities! We start next Monday with shows 104 and 105. I will then get the DVDs and subsequently upload to Youtube. The techs at Panda are so competent with computers, it was astounding to me, a mere neophyte, to see what they are able to do. Apparently they will tape my voice doing an actual show, save my photos on a separate drive, along with the intro and concluding slideshows, and everything will be synced and overlaid to produce a show. I sort of knew all of this could take place, but with the process that we did in Woodstock being do different, I never gave it much thought. There might also be a way to edit, which would defeat the whole concept of my making mistakes - with which I have always been simultaneously frustrated and charmed! Therefore, on Monday evening I will keep you informed of the goings on at their studio and maybe even be able to upload two more shows to my Youtube channel. Stay tuned.