When she was loading software on this new ‘pooter, Claire included a video editor because that’s something I’ve wanted to learn. We’re missing a necessary thing or two, like a real video camera, but mostly I just want to learn how to splice things together. I’m not planning to shoot the third installment of Atlas Shrugged or anything. The contents of Youtube seem to indicate every teenager in America can do it, so why not me?
That never fails to end up being a stupid question.
But I set the Official TUAK point’n’pray camera to its Video setting this morning and shot several clips of the tractor doing its thing, just so I’d have something to play with. And I figured out the editor app, spliced the clips together, gave it a title and a soundtrack. Wasn’t really hard at all.
Export video…
Read file properties…
58 megabytes? Seriously?
So I won’t be sharing that with anybody…
Were you running Lives? Because that one always left me with HUGE files… Probably, though, theres a setting in the export menu to change the resolution and get the file down to workable.
Pat yourself on the back my man.
You are WAY ahead of me.
I just figured out how to turn the video on and I have had this lap top a year and a half.
Of course, I have never really had the urge to use it but you are still way ahead of me.
Heh. Ya, video can take *enormous* space. ‘Specially if you render it out at full resolution. You could try various different export settings.
You tube does ‘streaming’ video….wherein only a chunk of the whole clip is loaded up front. You *could* upload it to you tube and put a linky here……
I’ve been doing videos on my Windows machine for some years now, using Cyberlink’s PowerDirector, a very high-end program. I expect the free Linux equivalents I’ve seen will do most of the basic stuff, but I haven’t tried any yet.
My videos (youtube.com/jeffersonian1) often end up over 1 gigabyte before I upload them.
Michael G. sent me a laptop like yours more than a year ago and I use it nearly every day for wardriving, capturing videos or downloading large files I don’t have the bandwidth for at home. I’ve found several places with high-speed WiFi, with various restrictions on up- or downloads. To upload my large videos, I usually use the public library.
Sometimes I park around back and don’t bother going inside. Coffee shops, restaurants, motels, etc. are also good places to search for unsecured WiFi signals. I work as a courier in a large city and I often park the car where I can get a signal, start the laptop downloading something huge, throw a flannel shirt over it for camouflage, then lock the car and go hike several deliveries on foot.
BTW, the Almighty Internets (i.e. Amazon) will provide spare laptop batteries, optical drives, AC adapters, etc. A spare battery for my laptop was something like $20.
If you’re lazy like me you can just try something like photobucket and then give a link to people instead of mailing and posting massive files