Stephanie isn’t the only one to bail on updating blogs, Flickr, etc. I’m guilty too. But where she has it easy with telling Aperture to add photos to Flickr, or popping out some blog posts, she leaves the heavy lifting to me (and to our cable connection, which is wicked fast downloading, but has a weeeeee upload pipe).
I’ve spent this evening getting all of the video in order that needs to be put onto the computer, and also getting video that was already in the computer edited and uploaded. These are all videos of our kids doing various things, mostly concerts and plays they have participated in. In total, tonight’s editing success was 9 small videos, and one large one. The small ones are pretty simple, the large one got to be more complicated. Then they have to be rendered/compressed for upload. A 2 1/2 minute video takes about 5-6 minutes to render, while a 35 minute video takes 2 hours. Our 2 1/2-year-old iMac is a 2.8 GHz dual-core with 4 GB of RAM, so it’s not a slouch (though the new Core i7 would be sweet). After that, the upload – the 9 smaller videos totaled 655 MB of data, which on the download side of our cable connection would take about 10-15 min. Uploading? Not so fast – we’re looking at 3 hours and change (at a 512 kbps upload)! Come on Time Warner! Give me at least 1 Mbps upload!!
Well, anyway, thus begins the elimination of procrastination. The videos I’ve put up tonight were from last year – a concert last March at the elementary, with Sarah in the band, and Allie in the chorus. We also have a jazz band concert at the high school (yes, from last March too) that Chris Jr. played in. The large video didn’t get uploaded yet (coming tomorrow, er, later today) – that will be the play the elementary school put on last year that Sarah had a part in.
The next one will be Allie’s play from last week. Getting some pressure from the Missus on that one. It puts me out of order, which bothers my OCD, but it will thrill my 10-year-old, which more than makes up for it. Then it’s back to Jr’s end of year concert, and 6 hours worth of tapes to import, edit and upload. (I love the HDV, but am tired of the import process. On the lookout for solid state HD…)
Hopefully y’all will think they were worth the wait


















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