It all started over a year ago when Sarah and I wanted to upload a video of ourselves playing the 2nd movement of Chopin's Concerto No. 1 onto our blog (hopefully you'll see that yet). We spent several frustrating hours waiting for it to upload, then getting error messages from blogger. We searched blogger help to no avail. When we asked our friend, Keslie, about it she advised getting a YouTube account; however, Dad wasn't to keen on that because it was so public. We figured we didn't need to load it that bad and we'd get it figured out someday.....
All future attempts to load videos continued to be absolutely unsuccessful. Another friend recommended a YouTube account as being the simplest route to go, so I finally secured the necessary permission. With eager anticipation, I opened a YouTube account. After editing together a charming video, I clicked on "produce video". Now please understand, this program was supposed to have a simple and headache-free way to upload my video to YouTube. All one had to do was click on this "YouTube" button and follow the steps! I clicked the YouTube option and I discovered that I had to give my approval for YouTube and my video program communicate with each other. I permitted the conversation and clicked next. Then, to my utter horror, my video editing program froze. YouTube was suppose to fix all my problems!
Not wanting to hit one person with all my computer problems, I contacted Sarah's former piano teacher's husband, who had sent us a few of his YouTube videos for enjoyment. His advice proved most excellent. I carefully saved a very small file as an .avi, then tried to upload via YouTube directly. Every ten minutes, I ran to my computer and jiggled the mouse to prevent the computer from hibernating and ruining everything. (Windows Vista is so complicated I can't seem to find where that setting is!) Two days of headaches, blurry eyes, dead brains and sore shoulders later, I present to you our video!
Am I proud? I think I'm just relieved. Please enjoy! (meanwhile I'm still waiting for support to tell me why that little upload to YouTube option didn't work in the first place.....)
~ The Second Rose
3 comments:
Bravo sister! It's so exciting to be share a snippet of the concert with everyone!
Everyone: This is just a confirmation that YES, Janna has been looking at us blurry-eyed, complaining of aching shoulders, spending ages on the computer emailing almost anyone she can think of who might be able to help, and well, on the brains thing..............I'll just say she lasted long enough to accomplish what she set out to do. And now we can move on with life (after proper recognition to Janna of course), knowing that all you fans are enjoying the video! I'm so thrilled!
~the Fourth Rose
Hooray! That was lovely!!!! Thank you so much for sharing!!!
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