Two of my Canons face off. The 300D wisely stays out of the way, hidden in a desk in my office.

As I mentioned a few days ago this is really a PM(ost)D gallery for the time being rather than a true PAD, despite having yet to miss a day. And yet the fact that I shall is, as Thomas Andrews might have put it, "a mathematical certainty". Part of the reason is that I'm working on some video projects and my knowledge of video is some 5 years behind my knowledge of still photography. Which is to say, close enough to zero to make no odds. Accordingly the Legria is consuming some of the time that might otherwise have been taken up by the 40D.

Thankfully Total Training has a useful training course by Jerron Smith (Link Redacted) on Premiere Elements. (It's version 7 rather than version 8 as I have, but it's close enough for the purposes of the exercise.) Premiere Elements is a useful little program once you know what you're doing with it.

Indeed, it was the Total Training course which has caused the sum total of my time on PBase today to be... the time that it's taken to post this picture. Apologies to the several who I usually visit on a daily basis, but I shall return shortly.

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Edit April 2024: Wow. Reading this was another temporal shock to the system. I took the link above out while I was updating my watermarks because really, who would want to see a 14 year old training course, hmm? And besides, surely the link will have rotted by now, no? Yes and no, because of what happened to Total Training. Once one of the leading online training libraries (as in, around the time that I wrote the original description above), it fell into the toilet in a big way over the next couple of decades. It was the place where Deke McClelland got his start in moving from textbook writing to video training in his Photoshop CS2 course... which is still available from Total Training. Yes, CS2 is from May 2005. Why? Just... why?? The course has long since passed into senescence, given how much has changed in Photoshop in the last... {counts on fingers, no, that can't be right, counts again...oh dear, it is...} NINETEEN years.

Lynda.com then poached McClelland and, I suspect, most of Total Training's clients over the years, before it was bought out by LinkedIn Learning which has proceeded to dumb down its technical courses and bury them under left wing political courses, but that's a separate conversation.

Total Training, in the meantime, seems to have increasingly survived on scraps and has therefore not had the money to invest in new courses, or for whatever reason has chosen not to, and no longer attracts top of the line trainers. (There may be some exceptions, but I've not seen them personally.)

Thus their "latest" SQL Server course is Paul Nielsen's one for SQL Server 2005, which I bought... a LONG time ago. However despite it being well past retirement age it is still worth referring to because LinkedIn Learning's courses on SQL Server could, in my view, be titled "Betty and Jim Do SQL".

And Jerron Smith? I had forgotten all about him and didn't even recognise the name. Except... his course is in fact still there. And for $US29.99 you can still watch it. When I saw his face again I kinda sorta vaguely recalled him. I don't recall using Premiere Elements. I do remember for a time using what I consider to be the nightmare train wrecks of Adobe Premiere (the full edition) and After Effects, before I decided that life was way too short to waste it on software like that. So... there you go. I guess I should get back to doing something closer to a PAD again because it's interesting to look back from over a decade in the future to see how things change.

Oh, and the Legria? I think it's in a bag somewhere on the top shelves of the built ins in my study, not having seen the light of day for many years. Between mobile phones and the video capability of modern DSLRs, the dedicated video camera is itself becoming a historical relic.