5:00 PM Pacific Ocean Sunset, California, November '07, artistic view.
Just finished my first collaboration video with a YouTube member from abroad. I shot the video, and he is going to play a flute to come up with a nice background for it. Not sure how long it is going to take, we have to wait now. Actually, it was his idea, let us see how this works out. The video will be called Beach Birds. It comes from a small place near the Pacific Ocean; beach scenes, small and large birds, boats, green plants, dry tall grasses, and sunsets. In HDV 1920 x 1080 it looks pretty impressive, loses slightly when it is shrunk to fit the YouTube window. I am trying to figure out if there is any other encoding scheme that would produce much smaller number of artifacts when converted to YouTube flash format. Is spending another several hundred dollars on Adobe Flash software the only solution? Also we ran into issues with sending video files over 100MB in size, simple thing would appear, but gmail is choking on them, and so is Yahoo email. When going through YouTube, a conversion occurs, so you end up with a lower quality video at the start of collaboration. Very nasty!
But let us finish this blog on a more positive note. I am working on a music piece for my other Oahu video which I decided to call Beach Time. Just realized that both videos use a word beach in them, hope it is not too many times.
In the last two days, I listened to Alicia Keys' latest CD As I Am and watched Shakira's DVD Oral Fixation Tour. Both were bought on Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com. A new book being read is Hearing and Writing Music, 2nd ed., by Ron Gorow. That one also came through Amazon.com.
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