Happy New Year

It is happy indeed.  I was finally able to have some working video that I could edit.  All these troubles (see Deb's guest blog entry previous to this one) is really making me appreciate the ease of the flip video even more than I did before.  But I was off and running, well, ok maybe slow-paced jogging, with my videos today.  I started working on one about 11:30 am and uploaded it around 4 pm.  Of course, we ran into a little more difficulty--but at least I have something.

Problem number came with my completed imovie created on Deb's mac and my blogger account.  It did not want to accept the movie even though it was listed as one of the "acceptable" formats on the blogger account (avi format) and under the size limit.  We ran into this problem before but that was with the video created on imovie from the flip.  Don't know why.  But it works if we download it to a flash/jump drive and then upload it to the blogger account from my pc.  So problem one solved.

Problem two however came when I tried to view the video from my blog site.  The video was there but I discovered that there is no way to enlarge the video when going through the blog entry site.  Humm...not necessarily a problem with all videos, but this particular video was on Egyptian money and the details on the bill were lost when trying to view it in a little three by two screen!  So, I posted it on youtube and linked it back to my blog entry.  Now at least students can enlarge the video using the "full screen" option (little icon next to the volume bottom on video task bar). Problem two solved...

But now the quality of the video is poor.  I don't know if it is all the converting or what.  But it's pixalated and kind of blurry.  All this Scandinavian can say about the struggles over my Egyptian videos is UFF DA!!!

So we tried saving the completed videos in different formats (quick time--which saves in avi and mp4) tomorrow we may try the "widescreen" option on the imovie setup versus the "standard" size.  So it is now after nine and we have three blog entries up with videos of at least some sort: Egyptian Money, Egyptian Expressions, and Accommodations.  I'll keep you posted!