Videos

My wife asked me last week if I could make a video of the garden for the Face-book.
In the past I had messed around a bit with videos for the Internet but I was actually never satisfied with the out come. I have down loaded Virtual Dub so that I could compress the data to a reasonable size, for instance from over 500 MB down to 130 MB in an AVI file, naturally the quality of the video suffered tremendously. I am at the moment experimenting and hope in the near future to put a video into my Blog.
I have tried Window Move Maker, which is a simple way to make a short video but on my laptop (I have Vista) it always shuts down on me. Anything to do with Windows Media Centre just does not function, its very frustrating and no one seems to be able to help me! I have looked the problem up on Internet, found lots of forums were people are having the same problems and there are hundreds of so-called remedies, have tried one or two with out any results.
I have a program called Pinnacle Studio 11; it’s a very good creative video-editing program with lots of good features in it and for my photos I have a program called Magix for making slides shows.
I have been doing some reading up on the Canon 450D and the 50D also went into a photo shop and got some first hand information on both the models. I have decided that I will save for the 50D instead of the first intended 450D; it means I will have to wait awhile longer before I can buy it but I think the wait is worthwhile. If I recall the Blotter has the 50D and from what I can gather he is very satisfied with it.
The weather is playing havoc at the moment, last week it was lovely and warm and everybody thought that at long last the winter was gone and that at long last spring was here.
This week it’s the other way around. Yesterday for instance I was at work and on my way there I left a rainy countryside to arrive in a snow covered one (the distance is 100 KM). All the morning it snowed heavily and in the afternoon it turned into rain. The temperature is no more then six degrees and slowly but surely we have had enough of this cold and dismal weather.
I was pleased to hear that my brother (No.1Broadstreet) had a very relaxing weekend with is wife, getting away from everything once in a while is a good thing.
My wife and I went on a three weeks holiday in the mountains of Switzerland years ago, in these three weeks we never saw a news paper heard the radio or watched TV, there were no mobiles, no laptops with Internet connection. We did long hikes every day, cooked our food mainly every evening on a grill and washed it down with good Swiss beer. The three weeks did us the world of good.
Take care out there were ever you are. Tshüss
The photo, well there is no explaination needed. Taken 26 years ago.