my first vlog

I talked previously about vlogs and now here is my very first. My love for Ben Folds (Five) is shown in this video (of many, no doubt). The song is called:
'One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces'. It's the first track from the BFF album 'Whatever and Ever, Amen'. Get yourself the album if you don't own it, it really is one of the best from the group.

Much like katelink.blogspot.com, my footage is shot from a digital camera. I have a Canon Powershot A510 (great compact camera with configurable manual settings, like aperature, shutter speed and manual focus). Unfortunately, I can only take up to 3mins of footage at 320*240 resolution (and 30secs at 640*480), which means that I've had to play like a bat out of hell on this first song (the original song is about 4m30s or so).

However, this time restriction is made up for the fact that the video file format is AVI (uncompressed footage) - so it allows me to do whatever I like with it. Fantastic stuff. However, I thought that playing the song fast (and well) was going to be difficult, but actually finding the best way of presenting turned out to be more annoying.

After much faffing about trying to find the best quality vs. file size, I've finally settled for QuickTime *.mov files - and I highly recommend it to anyone else trying to compress AVI movies. A 50MB AVI (320*240px size) down to 20MB .mov!! Excellent! Well done, Apple/QuickTime.

Enough background story - on with the show. You'll find here (it's best to right-click and Save As...):
One Angry Dwarf

Hope it works. Have fun and give us any feedback at all - good or bad.

Cheers.