09.30.07
Woo Hoo Tube
Finally, I’ve got the video ‘up’. Time for Tea :
09.27.07
I put my garbage in ….
I just had the pleasure of editing my first video. With MovieMaker. Other than the terrible sound from the camera’s 8khz samplerate everything went … err … well. Well, ‘well’ is a bit of a lie. Its a dog, and an un-trained one at that. Anyway, it was time to export the finished masterpiece. Simple operation right? render output in the same file format (avi) and resolution (320×240) you’ve been working at, in order to compress it for use on-t’interblah. Common sense would suggest its a reasonable idea, but No. Apparently not. Give me a choice of wmv, but only avi in double the size?. wtf? So, I’ll render double size, then resample. A waste of time. Ah but no. The apparently double size avi was a much smaller file than I expected. wtwtf? Oh, Okay, its half the resolution it says it is. That explains the file size, but still - wtwtfff? Oh, err, hang on, its not the same size as would be expected at the new, half resolution, which ought to be by now the same size as I started with and want right? Well, No. Its bigger. As if there weren’t enough artifacts from using a cheap camera, I now have to generate more, by resampling to the size I want. To make matters worse, in order to publish it, I want it as a swf which adds a whole new beautiful layer of crap. Oh yes, and now somehow, the timing has started slipping in the conversion to swf. So, until I have more time, wmv wins.
I want my garbage out you silicon bastard.
On the other hand, I’m pleased to have remembered bink. I used it to make the video into a .exe - Greyscale + scaling + Interlacing has a great, old-school look and it even blacks the rest of the visible desktop area and provides transport key commands. chuffed.