Video Snafu
Saturday, May 10th, 2008(15 of 50)
I’ve been trying to upload a silly video of my silly dogs in the back yard for two days now, but the software (iMovieHD) I was using doesn’t have an automatic YouTube output setting. So, the result is a really bad QuickTime video that snapshots all over the place. Not very appealing.
There is an “upgrade” for iMovie in iLife 08, which I have, but I lose the timing and transitions when I port it over into the new one. So it’s back to the drawing board to re-engineer the thing.
That’s a technical snafu. Happens all the time with any kind of creativity - you lose a Word doc in a crash, your paint separates or cracks, your yarn breaks or bleeds, the glue dries out or the paper just won’t cooperate with your vision.
So you do it over again. I try to tell myself that it means I will learn more, have a chance to make it better. But right now, I have an empty blog page and a missed self-imposed deadline. C’est la vie!