notes on posting pmb videos

Posting videos to blogger notes - since I could not get this to go into whats going on blog I will try to transfer it here. This time I have used my flash drive to transfer wmv files to downstairs computer. Then uploaded them to blogger. If this fails I will try using picasa to do the transfer (once again using the wmv files).

additional note to self ... worked from downstairs computer using the wmv files(realplayer is the media player loaded there). Picasa only allows you to send pictures or the first frame of your video to blogger with the blog this button. If you want to upload video you have to use picasa web albums.

Now these videos are both in the whats going on blog


Rj plays with scout video
















Kt views nannas website

wmv

Well it turns out that I didn't give the newly created wmv files a chance.

On their first run through they play in a stuttered fashion with vision pausing and then skipping ahead to try and catch up with the audio ...

But on subsequent viewings everything straightens itself out!

So it appears that I can make the DVD's that I want to, in Windows DVD maker and mix digital camera videos with digital camera still shots.

I have already backed everything up now so I will not redo it for the sake of putting video and photos together ... but for the next one I attempt ... which will be photos (and video) from 2009 I will have a go.

I also discovered that in picasa I can quickly and easily create a little video made up of photos and it automatically saves it as a wmv file (which is how I stumbled onto the fact that my wmv actually does play properly after the first time).

Picasa also seems to allow you to quickly burn a cd or dvd using photos so I may play with that at some stage ... although I will admit that having spent so much time using and working out windows DVD maker I am not sure that I want to try too many others.

My computer also has cyberlink dvd suite which looks pretty good but perhaps a bit complicated ... allows you to slice video etc. And another program which is similar and again looks a bit complicated is windows movie maker.

Photo sort

I have been intensely working to get my photos sorted. I have made backup copies of all of Kt's photos from birth to the present and I had a go at making a photo slideshow DVD using Windows DVD maker.

It allows you to have a title page with a play button and scene selection buttons just like a normal DVD and then it plays your photos as a slideshow and you have the option to choose your own background music or how the photos change from one to the next, how long each photo is shown for etc.

I have made 4 DVD's in all this past week approx 6 hours worth of stuff from the last 6 years worth of photos!

Last year I also made backup copies of all the video uni took of her while his video camera still worked.

I am going to create a photo box to store all our DVD's, photo CDs etc and put them with our photo albums so everything is all organized.

I will also put in CD's and DVD's that others have given us eg Wedding photos etc.

I am having a bit of trouble with backing up and keeping video taken by my digital camera. It is saved by Kodak software as a Quicktime movie and quicktime is not compatible with windows photo editing software.

I tried changing my MOV files to WMV files which are compatible with windows but the quality of the resulting video was unwatchable.

I will attempt to make a Cd or DVD of my MOV files using Kodak Easyshare software and if this does not work I will have to try some other avenue ... perhaps AVI files.

It would be lovely to be able to have my photos and videos on one CD or DVD, but I will have to see if that is achievable with Easyshare or not