It's a hard life for the Cecil

Cecil's Tuesday Morning To-Do List:

1. Counter surfing while the humans sleep; today, this means eating a hole straight through a plastic bag to get at the Forbidden Cranberry Orange Muffin. Jackpot!

2. When the humans awake, walk around the kitchen meowing angrily; a.k.a., the Daily Airing of the Grievances;

3. Get in the way (see movie above). Note: the movie would look better if I rotated it but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do that. So just tip your computer screen 90 degrees to the right.

Comments

[Lu]

Cara:

I've been having the same problem. I keep forgetting I don't know how to rotate the movies, but continue to turn the camera. I'll get right on it! PS. I hope Cecil and Ole don't get together. Ole does the daily airing ALL day, unless I let him outside, of course.

[Sara]

Oh, the busy busy life of a cat.

I finally figured out how to rotate movies. In QuickTime, choose Window>Show Movie Properties. In the properties window, select a video track and click Visual Settings. Click one of the rotate buttons. Viola!

These are Mac instructions but they're probably similar for Windows.

[caraf]

Thanks, Sara! The instructions for Windows seem similar, but the problem is that I don't have QuickTime Pro, I just have regular free Quick Time. So it won't let me do that operation. Boo! Another reason why Mac is so much better for media...

[Sara]

OK, I was all set to make some snarky comment about Mac vs. Windows, and then I remembered that I paid to upgrade to QuickTime Pro, too, because of something else I wanted to do. But as I remember, it wasn't very expensive. Maybe $30?

[Patrick]

Ha! Cecil's a punk

[grace]

Hi--now I know wh I did not watch it--I do not have media player yet!