Bath Time

I finally got the bath video to work. It seems like the free editing software that came with the camera can't create a fully compliant AVI file. I had to backtrack, produce it as an mpeg-2 file and convert it to AVI using Streamclip. One of these days I should just buy some good software or get a Mac.

Babies first bath

I finally found time to edit and upload a video of the triplets first bath. It's taken while we are in the NICU. I film some of it, and our favorite nurse films some of it.

It's my first attempt at a few things.

1. Some of the videos on Youtube look dark, so I've tried to brighten this one up a bit.
2. My first attempt at splicing several smaller clips together.
3. And I've added a music track as opposed to just using the recorded sound.

Enjoy.

Creating Videos

I finally figured it out and there is now a video up on YouTube of my wife reading to our triplets.

My camera is a JVC Everio, nice camera with a big roomy hard drive and an easy interface. It's only drawback is that it creates all it's video in .mod format. Youtube doesn't recognize this format (in fact, a lot of things don't recognize it) so I had to convert it to an avi file.

I'll skip all the stuff that didn't work and jump right to what does work:

1. I downloaded MPEG Streamclip from http://www.squared5.com which supports all sorts of formats.
   
2. Streamclip needs a codec from Quicktime that you can pay Apple for...or download KL QuickTime Alternative 1.81 for free (I like free). Note: newer versions don't include the MGEG-2 codec you need.
3. If you go with the Quicktime Alternative, you will need to uninstall Quicktime before you install the alternative.
4. Install the software and enjoy. Be sure to read the document, it helped

I may be crushing the videos down a bit too much, but I'll experiment with that when I have more time.