{"id":125,"date":"2010-01-31T20:37:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T20:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livingarguments.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2010-02-01T01:37:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T01:37:35","slug":"first-steps-into-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"First steps into video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I honestly lack any skill in the area of video capture and editing.\u00a0 Mom bought a video camera sometime during my teen years for me and my father.\u00a0 The two of us unanimously agreed that she should return it.\u00a0 That ended my family&#8217;s experiment into video equipment.\u00a0 In our defense, we were very big photography nuts at the time.\u00a0 Since then I&#8217;ve been a hold out when video creation was concerned.\u00a0 This weekend I opted to change my status to an extremely late adopter.<\/p>\n<p>The situation causing the change was a few hundred photos from various campus ministry events.\u00a0 I could either create another picasaweb slideshow or a nice video slideshow with sound.\u00a0 Given the dozens of video products for just this situation, I realized I could no longer remain ignorant on the topic.\u00a0 I fired up Picasa, and used it to compile a simple movie from the pictures.\u00a0 After that I loaded it into Youtube for the viewing pleasure of the South Carolina United Methodist students.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve embedded my first attempt.<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AZwMGdUZ3qk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AZwMGdUZ3qk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re probably wondering what took me so long to get to this point.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not like I haven&#8217;t had experience in tons of equipment.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve learned both 35mm and digital photography.\u00a0 I did a two year stint running a sound board every Sunday at church during high school.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve built and disassembled multiple computers and installed an indoor\/outdoor wireless bubble in a summer camp in upstate SC.\u00a0 At this point the only reason I can give for not taking up video production is to limit the number of time consuming technical hobbies I have.\u00a0 Oh well, I&#8217;ve taken my first steps down the path.\u00a0 One wonders where this may lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I honestly lack any skill in the area of video capture and editing.\u00a0 Mom bought a video camera sometime during my teen years for me and my father.\u00a0 The two of us unanimously agreed that she should return it.\u00a0 That ended my family&#8217;s experiment into video equipment.\u00a0 In our defense, we were very big photography [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}