Our 1st Video or WARNING: LONG, BORING POST

Here on the Clopton Family blog, once the kids arrive, you will find 1) exciting written accounts of the crazy adventures that result from TWO baby girls, 2) links to photographs documenting those adventures, and 3) links to exciting video of all the zany highjinx. Today I want to tell everyone how the video will work and link my first attempt.

I wanted to make sure we had a good HD camcorder before the kids arrived. These kid’s entire lives will be documented in no worse than 1080i 60 from day one. We bought one in July because I was panicking. I take still pictures far faster than I do anything with them and I was afraid the same would happen with video unless I had a couple months to get a “workflow” down. So I packed the thing with us on our August trip to PA with the intention of figuring out the camera, the editing software, and how we are going to distribute it.

Well a month and a half later, I have finished a five-minute video. (I edit at the rate of 7 seconds per day.)

Short videos will be posted to Vimeo. We will link to them from here. Or you can add our Vimeo page (www.vimeo.com/aprilandpaul) to your favorites if you like. Long videos will be put on DVD and distributed accordingly. Once we have enough short videos, they will end up DVD as well. Vimeo has a couple big advantages. 1) It’s 720p HD. DVDs are standard D. It’s like a snobby, high-quality YouTube. 2) Anyone can view them (security is available if needed). That’s easier than sending EVERYONE DVDs.

So please, everyone, take a look at my first video. It’s just scenes around the house in PA. I’ve got at least three other videos from that trip to assemble.

To just watch the video:
1) Click Here
2) Press play

OR...

To enjoy the video in 720p HD
1) Click Here (same link)
2) Click the little square box (it's like four little arrows pointing out) at the bottom right corner of the video window . (That makes it full screen)
3) Click the “scaling is on” button toward the top right. It will then say "scaling is off".
4) Press play

If the above steps worked for you, then you are all set to enjoy the thousands of hours of exciting baby videos that will be posted soon. Thank you for your time.