Yesterday, I fixed the "Add comments" link on the RSS feed. I refuse to work on my birthday, but I love to code, so that doesn't count.
In the evening, I went skating in Watertown with Tyson, Kristy and CJ. Tyson brought his Canon PowerShot SD500 digital camera, which has video capability. So, we captured a couple videos of Shane.
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Following Shane for a back-flip |
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A roll-around hand stand |
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Not quite successful handspring
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Summer-salt to an actual head-stand
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I've only done a very small amount of video editing in the past, so I still don't know the best way of doing things. All of these videos were shot portrait rather then landscape. The digital camera does not correct this and I had to somehow rotate them. I found the software
Jahshaka, which is a full video editing studio. I couldn't figure out most of it by playing around (dang, looks like I'll have to read the manual), but I got far enough to rotate and export the video. I was trying to use
Video LAN Client to transcode the video, but most of the formats wouldn't work. I wanted to generic format most people would be able to play, so DivX seemed the logical choice. However, I never got a working DivX file. I did get a ASF and the first video is in that format. The rest are in whatever format Jahshaka uses.
The video experiment was fun. Despite it's size, Tyson's PowerShot did fairly well for videotaping skaters. It's large view screen made it possible to follow behind the person I was filming and still navigate. Even though I was moving pretty quick at some points, the video wasn't overly shaky as I had expected. Definitely something I want to try again.
Pictured at Melissa and Steve.