Ok, I just thought I'd say.. The videos were fun to do.. The birthday party was done on the forth of April (a week ago) but getting it sequenced up and edited was tricky because.. Well the windows live movie maker was not designed to work very well with my MOD files.. And so it was a three times to get it done type of thing.. After my second try I decided to wait until after doing the Easter video.. Now the Easter video didn't seem like I got that much of anything really.. But it turns out I got a way lot more video.. So upon starting it, I ran into the same issue as with the birthday party.. And I knew it was going to be worse because it was going to be longer and larger.. So I thought how am I going to get the video to be doable.. First thought was convert but there is no program that gets my video to look remotely very good.. I went through conversion programs converting and they made the videos unwatchable.. So what to do?? I then decided to do with the Easter video what I have done with the videos from my YouTube site, which is put them in folders of relative situations.. That basically meant scenes that included the water fight, the bubbles, the hanging in the yard and also the final bit when the twins were running through the house.. Did each folder individually and then put them together.. When all was said and done the video was 45 minutes in length.. That was the disc version.. The YouTube version was 21 minutes.. Which is the better version? I don't know if the longer version is better, it is just.. longer.. What does the longer version have that the shorter version doesn't?? Well the longer version has more of the water fight although only about a minute.. There was a fifth folder that was Ryans that I all but left off the YouTube version which might have been about five minutes.. There was more of the bubbles section.. And more of the Easter egg hunt section.. So when it came time to upload the video to YouTube our slow internet upload speed killed the idea of uploading the bigger YouTube file version, it was the 21 minute version but was set to be a bigger file.. The settings I use most on widows live movie maker are the for dvd setting and for e-mail.. The dvd setting is to make discs, and the email is to send it to YouTube.. The dvd setting meant the video would take over 8 hours to upload, assuming everything stays good for such a thing .. Good luck with that.. So I figure while I would rather have the larger file I figure you get the gist, if you want to see it in better file form watch the disc version...
On to the birthday party.. The third try would be the one that failed me as well.. I decided to try a different way of doing the video, I put the whole thing on without a single edit and clicked to have the video converted to dvd with the movie maker program.. After doing that the video was now one single video of about 45 minutes.. That was great except for one thing.. I would have to watch the entire video and clip it as I went,... it was going to be harder than I anted so abandoning that idea I went to the regular way I usually do the videos. Yes it acted up on me but I think the reason it went bad the first few times was I was trying something new and might have been too much for the program to take.. I got it edited and set to go and got it done. The dvd version was around twenty minutes but the YouTube version was 8.. I like doing the videos this way, having the longer version for disc and an edited version for YouTube.. It's more concise this way.. The videos still have the majority of the concept without a ton of filler.. That's my idea anyway..
One more thing, during the troubles I was having I decided to try to download another program, and try it.. It is the NCH video suite.. It's free and I thought I'd give it a try.. But as with any new program it means trying to figure it out, and I didn't want to.. So maybe in another day or two I will try it.. Try to learn it.. It seems like the windows live version a bit but.. not.. So I'll see if it might be better..
Badge Henry
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