Video Variations

Quite the puz­zle; the last lit­tle bit. After get­ting my iMac back in Novem­ber, I had to refig­ure the best way of tak­ing vids from my con­sumer mod­el still cam­era and get­ting them YouTube ready. Has­sle. Apples don’t like MPEGs, so I had to fig­ure the loop-de-loops to get MPEG to MOV to MPEG, so I could edit, et cetera. iMovie is vir­tu­al­ly impos­si­ble to use. I dicked around with MovieMak­er on my old lap­top and it did the job. Now, I’ve got to save the MPEG from my cam­era, con­vert it to MOV using MPEG Stream­clip, edit in Final Cut Pro, and buy DivX for Mac just to get an opti­mized file for YouTube.

It says some­thing when FCP is eas­i­er to use than iMovie. I had some vids from the Red Black and Green Christ­mas show at the Grog Shop, but the qual­i­ty was poor, as my cam­era sucks in low light. I put togeth­er this col­lec­tion of clips from when I was at the Pitts­burgh Zoo instead.

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