Transitions

One of the reasons that there has been no posts on this blog for some time is that have forgotten how to sign in to it. Frankly, managing multiple blogs on "Bluuger" is the proverbial pain in the arse, posterior, neck, psyche - or whatever part of the anatomy hurts most.

At some point will try to migrate this blog to Wordpress, which has the facility to manage multiple blogs from the one "control panel" - but the technical details are complex, and not yet fully understood.

In the meantime, this is the embryo "new" Address.

http://davinozvid.wordpress.com/

Cheers and Best of Season's Greetings to the occasional visitor, and may all the joys for the next series of years arrive with no strings attached .. heh.

Update 2.

Gaaaaah! Have managed to get two of the three part series onto uTube, but am still battling with the recipe for "best quality".

Part 1 is four minutes long and rendered into .wmv. Somewhere close to 49MB. Quality playback via uTube acceptable. Part 2 .. 5 minutes 19 sec .. was also rendered into .wmv .. and ended up as 130MB??!!. Re-Rendered as .mp4 which cut the file size down to 19MB .. but the playback quality on uTube is crap.

Will figure it all out .. one day ..

In the meantime try here .. which should take you to my efforts so far on youTube.

Template changes

Hoo boy. Have tried the "upgrade" to a new template (as suggested by Bl**gger) and lost a whole heap of stuff from the sidebar. Oh well, this IS an experimental bl*g after all.

One of these days will figure out how it all works, and get it looking how I'd like it.

Beta blogging

OK, in the interests of experiments, this blog has changed to the "beta" version of blogger.

Metacafe

OK, to be fair, have just received an email from Miri at Metacafe admitting a "mistake".

Still can't figure out why they need more than ten "reviewers", but such is the way of this world.

New challenges

Am off to the Jamestown Airshow this weekend. 450Km round trip. Given the unpredictability of motor vehicles and road trips - if I make it back, should have something interesting to post... later.

Video screen for Post below.

The clip is six minutes in length. Read through the post while waiting for it to buffer down.

OK, will try this. Click on the thumbnail which should take you to the relevant Video on Revver.

Editing system

Am using MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 10 silver Demo version, which came on a CD included with a magazine. At the moment I find it excellent, and much more flexible than Windows movie maker.

The Demo version is missing some of the functions of the "full"version, but is quite adequate for the experiments that am making. The ''full"version costs 30 or so English pounds (roughly $85 AUD) so haven't gone to that expense just yet. Will also search around to see if there is a better system somewhere.

[UPDATE; 14 Oct 2006] Have purchased the "full" version. One mistake was purchasing in English pounds. Found later that USDollars was cheaper, oh well. Have also purchased the "Music Maker" program for creating "background music" but the technicalities of that one are far too complex at the moment. Will just concentrate on figuring out how to best use the Video Edit system.]

Am finding the editing process very time consuming. Have almost an hour and a half of raw footage depicting the fishing trip on the Ord river, and am gradually whittling it down to some sort of comprehensive version that should give the 'flavour' of the trip, without making it too long to upload. This is difficult.

The 'first'version ended up at 29 minutes. The next version came out at 12 minutes, and am now working on a 3 minute version.

Initial post

this blog has been created as a vehicle to show some of my videos. At this point, have not decided which "video hosting"provider to choose, but it looks like either Revver or YouTube.

Stay tuned, but don't hold yer breath.