Joseph Burford

Kids - August 2008

A short clip with a random selection of my pics of Luca & Leah from August 2008, they grow up fast.

Busy day with Luca today

Spent most of the day looking after Luca, we kept ourselves busy doing all sorts of things

iMovie 08

During last week I managed to make some time to play around with Apple’s new iMovie 08, it’s not a bad package at all, lots of options and capabilities. Not having used iMovie previously it didn’t take me long to get the hang of it.

I managed to waste an hour or so and make a decent clip of Luca’s activites from last month. Export straight from iMovie 08 to Quicktime, upload the file and use a Wordpress plugin to embed Quicktime files and we are off and running.

Love that technology!

Creating video clips to share online

So you want to create an online video from various video clips or pictures that you have? Want to add some music to the background and also have some basic effects to spruce it all up?

Sounds like you are looking for Eyespot

A while back I was looking for an easy way to put together some of the video clips that get taken on digital cameras and make them into an online video to share with others.

Around a year ago I heard about Eyespot on one of the Twit podcasts and thought I’d give it a go. Since then I’ve been using it to create little videos to send to friends online and have found Eyespot most useful.

You can upload video clips, music files and pictures and then create a “mix” by choosing the various files you want to use, you can then create titles, includes transitions between clips and pictures and even add funky effects to the clips.

If you want to see a few examples of what can be done you can visit Luca’s site where every so often I put up a new video of him, or go straight to Eyespot, start reading and register!

Holden Balloon

While driving home tonight we saw what looked like a spaceship!

On closer inspection it was the Holden balloon flying fairly low and slow over the Adelaide suburbs.

I took a little video which came out ok.
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