Wednesday, February 29, 2012

My trip to Yuma, Arizona - Video #1


My Trip to Yuma, Arizona, VC01 from H.G. Lindquist on Vimeo.

In the beginning of this video I try to give a visual image of a small city spread out in the desert of the Southwestern corner of Arizona, near the borders of both California and Mexico. It's pretty boring stuff except to jog my memory of the visit. And I didn't get to see everything I wanted to because I went to the ER twice during my stay from Monday, February 6 to Tuesday, February, 14, 2012. I was in the ER at Yuma Regional Medical Center for most of Friday and Saturday, and forced to take it easy from Thursday, February 9 until I flew out Monday evening, February 13 ... getting back to Newark Liberty Airport in the early morning on Tuesday, February 14.

Technically it's an attempt to use virtually free software to trim and then splice the mp4 clips I shoot with my Toshiba Camileo B10 camcorders.

I first used Realplayer® to review and trim each clip and then I splice them together with muvee software. In this case, I didn't take the time to trim the clips because I was focusing splicing them together. I gave it all up and decided to use the Mac OS X iMovie software ... then load ran it through QuickTime ... loaded it into Vimeo ... and here it is:
As you can see, this last video is not the quality I want.