#13, Nice Round Number, I Suppose

One Day I Am Gonna Bite You, San Francisco, California, August ‘07, artistic view.

Released Beach Birds yesterday. This has been around for a while since was initially planned as a collaboration video. However, two days ago a quick decision was made to go ahead with a standard music, such that I could release it now. Some other video in the future is likely to go back to the collaboration attempt. Spent about two or three afternoons on US1, at the Pacific Coast, getting plenty of footage. After initial edits, there were over seven minutes of rather good video, but it was reduced to three minutes because of available music. Trying to write a seven minute piece of music versus a three minute piece is a rather major time involvement. Used some of the original sounds from the scenes, if they blended well with the composed music. There are only ten instruments used here, a smaller orchestra. Again a smaller, because adding several more instruments would require spending several more days on orchestration. I believe this is the very first time that a flute was used in my video music, and it sounds great! So far I was more inclined toward a clarinet but the flute may have an edge in some cases. Just in case, used both in the video music. No doubt, the next video is going to use even more flute.
Reached a milestone of some sort on YouTube, 10000 views of my videos. It is not a high number, do not get me wrong, after seven months only 10000 views. Still short of that tiny 100 subscriber goal, at least for a while. Never imagined how slow things can be on YouTube! Never before starting to make videos this would cross my mind! It is vlogging or bust, I will take the second.
Have you noticed that the number of people celebrating milestones on YouTube is down quite a bit? People used to celebrate much more, now less, my guess it got old.
Views after Thanksgiving are down, roughly by half. That is a very major slowdown, hopefully the trend reverses in January ’08.
Started to use Photoshop to add some artistry to the videos, you see it in the final shot with the video title, this trend is likely to continue since it brings something new.
Discovered that Canon’s advertised HDV 1920x1080i pixel format is more like 1440x1080!
This causes problems when you try to process frames in Photoshop, for example.
The horizontal pixels are stretched by a factor of 1.333, and a clever advertising gimmick is used to push cameras into videomakers hands! It takes a while to figure this one out, especially that you would not expect this to be happening in the first place. Is Sony doing the same? Anybody knows?
YouTube partner’s program seems to be going down the drain, as it should, since it was the worst thing that ever happened to YouTube!