Dissappointing then perfect

Today.. yesterday.. Recently..  I started work on ...  a video project that was going to be .. is rather, is going to be for the anniversary of my Nieces death.. And ..  well it took a few tries but I got it.. now the first few videos were done as an update to the video that was on YouTube, I edited videos from different sources and made a quick video early on the Monday before her funeral and then uploaded it and set it to live.. That video was updated a little with some videos that were shot in November and December and ... They were almost the same length as the original videos with the same feeling as that one but with a few seconds from three or four other videos and then put music to them.. They felt like I was trying to make the original videos better so.. I thought stop for a while and try again later, I have until October after all.. Then her sister was down and talking about her birthday and I thought maybe I should try to get this project done for her birthday and so I cranked up the ideas machine.. The song would be my favorite song.. Play this at my funeral.. Never mind.. Anyway this one would be Shine On You Crazy Diamond (part ix)  and I edited the song from the studio album.. Got it set, had it from... some time back, not sure how far back.. Then before I started it, I remembered having the live version of the same song somewhere.  Got it and edited it down.. But it sounded stale after trying it out.. So I went in search of the song elsewhere and found it.. A better version, although still bootleg, someone re eq'ed it.. Sounds fantastic.. I set the pictures up, did the studio version first.. That's nice.. Did the live version next, crowd noise is .. really loud but you gotta love the energy.. Maybe this wasn't the best idea, even though it is done..  Wait a few minutes and see if a new idea pops into my head and as I went to the post office three new ideas popped into my head.. This will make it better and add persistence of memory as the music track.. That will make it work.. Then as I put it together another song popped into the idea log.. Pergamon..  Even better.. So I had the song, the picture ideas and everything started to click.. But the version of the song I had ended abruptly, i know on the disc it fades after the final note is hit and fades naturally.. Had to get the disc with the song, in the mean time the video program sat idle for ten minutes.. Found the song, transferred it to flash drive, then removed the song from the program.. Added the song as I just gotten from disc.. How much more of the song was there??  I fully thought three to maybe seven seconds total.. The song was just under five minutes, and then I placed the song from the flash drive.. seven minutes total running time.. WHA??  Did I edit the song sometime before??  Then the fun began.. I have to add close to two minutes of pictures of which that isn't really easy nor is it hard.. There were places on the video I could add pictures to.. I also like having black (no pictures) in there, it adds to the emotion, as I found out on other videos I did.. Alrighty we have it all set. Let's run it through.. See how it looks.. First run through and everything looked great.. and then the song ended with well over two minutes of video to go.. Wait a minute.. What just happened??  I take a look at the song and sure enough it was timed out to 4:55...  Four minutes..  Just shy of five minutes.. So why does the video program show there is still music playing when it is obvious there isn't any..  The program was shitting the bed and I couldn't figure out how to stop it.. So when I did a full run through after getting it set, I paid more attention to the length of the song rather than any thing else.. And as I tried to get it set everything started to go to shit.. The video was crumbling before my eyes just as it did back in October, and just like in October I put a lot of faith that the video would come out.. So i crossed my fingers and hoped beyond hope that it would come out the way I set it up to.. And the run through revealed that it wasn't set up right at all.. So a leap of faith, I clicked to save as and hope it came out right.. And of course it did.. You think I'd write all this to tell of a failure (again).. No chance.. This made my day.. might have made my century short as that is to talk about.. Now where to upload it to.. Likely this version will be here for her birthday on March 1..  And the Shine on will be for her ...  Well you know.. in October..   The pictures that I used were all the pictures that were her funeral.. All of everything.. Yes there were only two.. Three with the placemat but that was a black and white.. I only used ..one as it turns out.. Amazing the ideas that came with that one picture.. The placemat and the program pictures..

Badge Henry