Yesterday, I was totally razzed in the comments. My girlfriends were mocking my sideways video. I am, after all, a 'TV Expert', doncha-know. I know all about TV production and aspect ratios and render codecs and yada, yada, yada. So how could I do something so 'amateur' as turn my video camera sideways?
Well. Now I'm on the defensive thank-you-very-much.
Clearly, my girlfriends missed one key detail - that the video was shot using an iPod. Which naturally has a vertical screen. I didn't turn a 'video camera' sideways, I merely shot using the devices' natural handheld position. And, I admit, in the back of my mind I thought to myself 'Geez, I wonder how this will work?". But then I thought to myself "It's a MAC product! They totally know what they're doing! By even allowing me to record this way, there must be an easy work around! It's a MAC!"
Never ASSUME, because then you make and ASS out of U and ME.
But my girlfriends didn't stop there. They started to suggest things that OF COURSE I had thought of and tried. Which, for a brief moment, was insulting. BUT, this also made me go back and look at what I had tried, and I found a better way. I also regained my trust in Mac products. This was truly a 'human' error.
I still get You Tube errors, but I did successfully rotate the video :-)
So, Dear Grilfriends, I Thank-You.
My readers thank-you too. Behold...a rotated video!
Rhys Blows A Whistle:
Also, here is yesterdays' video, rotated, for good measure...
Rhys Daddy Shoes:
And lastly, for the Grandparents (because it's like - 4.5 minutes long)...
Rhys in the bath at 18.5 months (yesterday):
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One silly little note...
In the bath video, around the :08 second mark, Rhys randomly puts both arms in the air. He does this all the time, when ever he thinks he's having his photo taken. Have no idea why. Someday I'll post all the photos/video I have of him doing that...
wierd...my verification word is 'resse'....
Oh no! I feel terrible!!! Okay. I DID NOT mean to make you feel bad. Well, not really. It was funny, that's all. And I have seen T. do it, too! ;-)
Having said that, I have decided to start using the sideways video technique for shooting because I think the turned video, with it's funky tall, skinny video is totally cool!
(PS: There was no doubt in my mind you would figure it out. :-)
I kept making the same mistake with Rob's camera, only I never bothered to figure out how to turn the video around. Again, it's because of the devices, not because we think we're shooting "sideways".
Videos are fun, though! Love the bathtime video of Rhys. I'm trying to caputre things on camera with William, but becasue he knows the camera is there, he's not acting naturally (does nothing, really), and the things I want to caputre are very quick.
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