Friday, April 1, 2011
Day in the Life Vlog
I don't have time for much other than work and homework these days, but in between I always squeeze in some exercise after sitting all day, so my vlog this week is a snowshoe around the backyard. Since my camera's mic just doesn't pick up voice well enough to be worth the effort, I had to go with captions. Doing this was fun, although I realize it's not the most exciting thing to watch (just not that action-packed!), but it's given me lots of ideas of what I should do with video snippets I've got from different events over the last year. This particular "movie" took almost 4 hours to load to YouTube!!! I guess it's rather long, either that or I didn't select the right size for loading. Both times I've loaded to YouTube, I used the size recommended by the editor I was using, which was Windows Live Movie Maker. What are the repercussions of not going with the recommendation I wonder? I imagine going smaller would be a quicker load. When you have to wait so long for the upload though, you hate to experiment too much.
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I usually go with one setting lower than WLMM recommends. It makes the file has as big and easier to load. Thanks for the snowshoe hike. It would have been more fun to strap on my snowshoes and join you!
ReplyDeleteHi Gail,
ReplyDeleteBeautiful video! The captioning made it feel very peaceful, which is one of my favorite things about snowshoeing, so I think you captured it perfectly! I'm using a different video editing package than you are, but have you seen an option to "optimize" your video? I did that, and it ended up taking only 20 minutes to upload to YouTube. There may be other differences in computer and network speed, but the optimization may help!
Laurie
Are you shooting high definition video? That would be a reason for it being so big and slow to upload. You can also do voice-over with video-editing software, next week we'll use an audio program called Audacity. Once you get the hang of it you might want to attempt a voice over for your final ePortfolio.
ReplyDeleteGail I liked your snowshoe trip. I wonder if you could have added a song to play in the background? I know when I was using Jay Cut that was possible...I had to much background noise to try this with my vlog....Funny sounds like we had the opposite problem.
ReplyDeleteI am amazed by how much snow is on the ground. It is almost bare around here. I do find text hard to stay interested in withou any audio. I am looking forward to next week and learning audio dubbing!
ReplyDeleteAngie