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Hi guys, this blog has been very quiet lately… I know.

What is keeping me busy at the moment is my relocation to London. Well, yes… after spending some time thinking about it (admittedly, not too much) Francesca and I decided to move and enjoy a new experience abroad.

This is something I used to dream of, and now it’s reality! There’s no plan to get back in the short term… I mean, it’s not a vacation, we want to live here for a while and see what happens, improving our poor English in the meanwhile.

If you want to see me in Italy, you now need to book me in advance :-)

If you happen to be in London, just give me a call and I’ll be more than happy to meet you!

If you’re wondering what’s going on at SeeSaw… well, just stay tuned and everything will be explained in a couple of weeks.

Hugs and kisses.

PS: I’ve tried to eat “Spagetti alla Carbonara” here and got badly sick… I promise I’ll never eat Italian food again!

As maybe someone of you already know, I have a close friend who is an opera singer. Yesterday I had to extract and convert a few excerpts of his DVD and put them on YouTube. Here the steps it took me:

1. Convert the DVD to .mp4 file with Handbrake
2. Cut out the excerpts with SimpleMovieX (it allows me to use precise pointcuts times, i had eg to extract from 1:50:23s to 1:52:25s) and save them.
3. Import the excerpt in iMovie 08 and add titles and transitions. Normalize audio (DVD audio level is usually very low).
4. Export resulting video to a YouTube friendly format (.m4v)
5. Upload to YouTube.

You can see the final result on Domenico Menini’s YouTube Channel.

Are there better/faster ways to achieve the same result?