Sunday night started loading of the "old" family videos for editing and upload to my Youtube site.. I wasn't sure how much would fit, nor how they would look or will turn out.. The transfer from tape to dvd might have taken a lot out of them and now the transfer from dvd to the computer and then the editing process that will ultimately lead to them being changed from the format they are in to get here to the file format they will take after editing to the third to be easily uploaded to youtube.. Why edit them at all?? Well they are all in long form VTS (VOB) files format right off the disc, and they are run together, rather than quick clips which is how most of the discs are set up.. I would rather they come off the way they are on but what can you do about it.. I clipped Donald and Lucy's wedding (rehearsal) video in half for the upload, I think one video is five seconds over the fifteen minute maximum upload time on youtube allows.. For this there are videos of over an hour, so I have to clip, plus there are some that I want some of but not all of the videos.. A lot of video of dad, that is a must.. I didn't shoot much of dad, and I don't know why.. I guess I never thought how badly I would miss him if he ever died.. Most of what I am after is the good old days, show what the house was like and yard.. Some of the earlier trips to Silt and grandmas house.. The very first and last get together of the White-Caine clan in over thirty years.. So far that video eludes my capture, I know which disc it is on but can't find it in the VTS VOB files.. I have one more idea to try and see if it works.. That trip was really special, when we got there Toad was already so frail looking, hard to believe she was as bad as she was health wise after all the times I had seen her she was more than a little on the "kick ass" side of things..
I so badly wanted to go out Sunday night and see if the northern lights were active.. But I had hit the wall from the night before and Sunday was a heat fest and by midnight my vision was blurry at best and after I got the last of the videos loaded from disc I set the converter to convert the rest of the night and hit the hay.. Woke up Monday morning, saw the computer was in sleep mode and thought the impossible had happened, it converted all the videos to avi.. But what in fact did happen was the computer yawned and went to sleep as well.. Alrighty then.. Three and nine percent of a forth video were done.. Not the forty I thought, oh well.. I'll do it a different way, I just thought it might be easier working with an avi file rather than a VTS (VOB) .. Guess we'll see..
Well after spending the afternoon Monday trying to get all those videos edited I ran into troubles with the program (Windows Live Movie Maker) it turns out that converting to another file form from the dvd (VTS VOB) is what they suggest you do.. I had in fact done three (as mentioned above) but there was and remain a bit of a jittery motion on the video so that might be more than a little tricky to watch..
There was a video of dad playing croquet that I so badly wanted and after looking all afternoon I found it late last night, got it edited and now am uploading it.. It was the last time we all played croquet together, the last time dad played as the next year he would start dialysis and that changed his life completely.. He was less confident in his ability to walk in the yard, and didn't anymore.. Lucy was there and this was the summer before they got married.. Shadow was there.. Yikes..
On the other site I explained a bit about this site having issues, and while there were issues it was my undertaking, I wanted this site to be closer to what it is now.. I won't venture into being like the other site at all.. All the stuff I used to write there is now going to be here exclusively.. . I wanted to have a site that became what PNOP has become, I've explained this somewhere else.. And then when I started this site a few weeks ago, I wanted it to be almost exactly like the family site was with the exception of the story ideas that I am working on.. When the urge to write some sort of story hits me, I want it left as a draft and not preread by anyone.. Kinda like my private Myspace site where some of the ideas are lurking.. I thought for a while about going back to the family site but it just didn't feel right, so I started the "CHIZ" site.. The other that this is piggybacked on is called "Infinite Improbability" and yes I did an entry there but did NOT push publish.. It's still a draft and will remain that way I think.. Unless PNOP goes toes up I can't see starting "I.I." but you never know, I might have a third splinter suddenly happen.. Imagine a third separate idea needing a blog all it's own?? I can't.. er can't imagine but you .. never know..
This picture is from Freda's FB and although I feel the same about weddings as I do funerals (one in the same) I always thought that this would be the perfect type of wedding.. I always thought the perfect place for a wedding is up by the shrine at Silverton.. Although the weather is extremely unpredictable up there from June through ... well pretty much all year when you think of it..
Badge (don't forget the bug spray) Henry
(P.S. Here's an explanation about the Feb. 15 video: The video I wanted so bad to be included because of the subject matter and when you see it you will understand why I went through the lengths I did to get it even though it is by no stretch of the imagination perfect.. Or the way I wanted to get it.. There were times where I turned the camera on and let it go regardless of what might be getting shot.. That or I thought I was in pause mode and wasn't.. I tend to think it was recording on purpose because I just thought it would be a good idea.. And now it is a statement of fact, what the video description says.. The last ride, the last hurrah if you will.. And it marks the final video of the series.. I think.. To be put on Youtube of this kind... I think it is a good set of videos.. Family type anyway..)
I so badly wanted to go out Sunday night and see if the northern lights were active.. But I had hit the wall from the night before and Sunday was a heat fest and by midnight my vision was blurry at best and after I got the last of the videos loaded from disc I set the converter to convert the rest of the night and hit the hay.. Woke up Monday morning, saw the computer was in sleep mode and thought the impossible had happened, it converted all the videos to avi.. But what in fact did happen was the computer yawned and went to sleep as well.. Alrighty then.. Three and nine percent of a forth video were done.. Not the forty I thought, oh well.. I'll do it a different way, I just thought it might be easier working with an avi file rather than a VTS (VOB) .. Guess we'll see..
Well after spending the afternoon Monday trying to get all those videos edited I ran into troubles with the program (Windows Live Movie Maker) it turns out that converting to another file form from the dvd (VTS VOB) is what they suggest you do.. I had in fact done three (as mentioned above) but there was and remain a bit of a jittery motion on the video so that might be more than a little tricky to watch..
There was a video of dad playing croquet that I so badly wanted and after looking all afternoon I found it late last night, got it edited and now am uploading it.. It was the last time we all played croquet together, the last time dad played as the next year he would start dialysis and that changed his life completely.. He was less confident in his ability to walk in the yard, and didn't anymore.. Lucy was there and this was the summer before they got married.. Shadow was there.. Yikes..
On the other site I explained a bit about this site having issues, and while there were issues it was my undertaking, I wanted this site to be closer to what it is now.. I won't venture into being like the other site at all.. All the stuff I used to write there is now going to be here exclusively.. . I wanted to have a site that became what PNOP has become, I've explained this somewhere else.. And then when I started this site a few weeks ago, I wanted it to be almost exactly like the family site was with the exception of the story ideas that I am working on.. When the urge to write some sort of story hits me, I want it left as a draft and not preread by anyone.. Kinda like my private Myspace site where some of the ideas are lurking.. I thought for a while about going back to the family site but it just didn't feel right, so I started the "CHIZ" site.. The other that this is piggybacked on is called "Infinite Improbability" and yes I did an entry there but did NOT push publish.. It's still a draft and will remain that way I think.. Unless PNOP goes toes up I can't see starting "I.I." but you never know, I might have a third splinter suddenly happen.. Imagine a third separate idea needing a blog all it's own?? I can't.. er can't imagine but you .. never know..
Badge (don't forget the bug spray) Henry
(P.S. Here's an explanation about the Feb. 15 video: The video I wanted so bad to be included because of the subject matter and when you see it you will understand why I went through the lengths I did to get it even though it is by no stretch of the imagination perfect.. Or the way I wanted to get it.. There were times where I turned the camera on and let it go regardless of what might be getting shot.. That or I thought I was in pause mode and wasn't.. I tend to think it was recording on purpose because I just thought it would be a good idea.. And now it is a statement of fact, what the video description says.. The last ride, the last hurrah if you will.. And it marks the final video of the series.. I think.. To be put on Youtube of this kind... I think it is a good set of videos.. Family type anyway..)
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