The One With The Belated Birthday
Well happy belated birthday, Rylee!
Rylee's first birthday was just this past March. Last year, just a few weeks after she was born, my cousin Jonathan and I went to visit this new addition to our family β our youngest cousin. I brought my video camera with me and only a year later got the chance to do something with what I recorded.
When I began laying out the clips I wasn't sure what music to set it all to. I searched the Internet for some birthday songs. None really seemed to fit. Then I remembered the Beatles' Birthday song.
I had this grand design in my head of cutting the entire sequence to this song. However, that is a mighty big task, as those of you familiar with the song can imagine. Also, I only had just over 10 minutes of footage to work with and I had overused the zoom in nearly every clip.
After some time I finally figured it out. So I will present to you βin honor of Rylee's first birthday β a special "music video."
Now, among my difficulties getting this video ready was figuring out what went wrong with the ROTFLMBO video of Briella. I address some of this in a previous entry. To address possible solutions, I set-up an account with a different server (Blip.tv). I uploaded the video from my computer to the server with IE instead of Firefox. And I'm even writing this entry while on IE instead of Firefox. I really hope this works.
The video is just over 3 minutes so it may take a few moments to download. And, as a reminder, you need to have Quicktime to play this video. QT is free to download. There is a link off to the side on this Website. If you do experience a problem or have any other comments, please click on the "Comments" link below this entry.
Ok, here we go: click HERE for the video
Rylee's first birthday was just this past March. Last year, just a few weeks after she was born, my cousin Jonathan and I went to visit this new addition to our family β our youngest cousin. I brought my video camera with me and only a year later got the chance to do something with what I recorded.
When I began laying out the clips I wasn't sure what music to set it all to. I searched the Internet for some birthday songs. None really seemed to fit. Then I remembered the Beatles' Birthday song.
I had this grand design in my head of cutting the entire sequence to this song. However, that is a mighty big task, as those of you familiar with the song can imagine. Also, I only had just over 10 minutes of footage to work with and I had overused the zoom in nearly every clip.
After some time I finally figured it out. So I will present to you βin honor of Rylee's first birthday β a special "music video."
Now, among my difficulties getting this video ready was figuring out what went wrong with the ROTFLMBO video of Briella. I address some of this in a previous entry. To address possible solutions, I set-up an account with a different server (Blip.tv). I uploaded the video from my computer to the server with IE instead of Firefox. And I'm even writing this entry while on IE instead of Firefox. I really hope this works.
The video is just over 3 minutes so it may take a few moments to download. And, as a reminder, you need to have Quicktime to play this video. QT is free to download. There is a link off to the side on this Website. If you do experience a problem or have any other comments, please click on the "Comments" link below this entry.
Ok, here we go: click HERE for the video
2 Comments:
At 4/22/2006 10:36:00 PM,
jenni said…
Ok. The test went well for me. I opened IE, came to this site, clicked the link and it took a little more than 1 minute to download. I then did the same thing using Firefox and it took less than 30 seconds.
I did notice the sound was a little off. I realized that when I compressed the video, I must have unwittingly set the sound to mono instead of stereo. The original is in stereo. Hence why it sounds weird. Sorry about that.
Anyway, let me know how things are going for you. And how you think I may improve the next video. Thanks.
At 4/23/2006 08:41:00 AM,
Anonymous said…
It rocks!!!! I love it! Rylee loves it too. She has changed so much and is now a different child. No more wild crying! The end with her actually falling asleep is precious. Thank you so much - you did a great job! Now you've inspired me to start working with her videos from the past year. I know it takes a lot of time and can be extremely frustrating. Thanks so much for doing it. I didn't have any problems viewing it. I just had to download Quicktime and then I could see and hear her cries!!!
THANKS!
Shelley
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