{"id":2079,"date":"2008-08-25T09:42:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T17:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2008-08-25T09:49:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T17:49:55","slug":"mission-peak-video-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/08\/25\/mission-peak-video-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Peak video experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I decided to join the multimedia revolution and take all video clips rather than still images on my weekly outing. I started at Mission Peak because I know the hill by heart and hiking to the top in mid-August is definitely a worst-case scenario. <\/p>\n

It’s easy to throw together a video montage — heck, it’s built into iPhoto — but assembling a not-sucky video of a few minutes length is deeply not-easy. Sorting through a hundred clips, throwing out the suckiest ones, paring down the dead areas in the better ones (I wouldn’t say I had any good<\/em> ones), getting them all in order, adding titles, compressing, uploading and so forth is extremely time-consuming. I worked it out to an hour for each minute of finished video, and that’s after I spent four hours figuring out how Apple’s iMovie works. <\/p>\n

Here’s the result, posted at YouTube. <\/p>\n

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After all this work you get to watch it with YouTube’s crappy-ass compression making it all pixilated … I’m going to see if Google video is any better. <\/p>\n

For now I’m not adding a soundtrack … I don’t have any recording gear and I don’t like stealing other people’s work (tough I did have a killer track from X’s cover of Jerry Lee Lewis’s “Breathless” on an early version). I know everybody does it; well, let ’em. Copyright allows me to earn a living so I’m a little more picky about it. And adding sound is another gazillion hours of work … I see now why movies cost millions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I decided to join the multimedia revolution and take all video clips rather than still images on my weekly outing. I started at Mission Peak because I know the hill by heart and hiking to the top in mid-August…<\/p>\n

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