Just a simple little video

I'd been wanting to shoot a little tutorial video on "Travis Picking" for YouTube. I have a long weekend so I set up the DSLR and my new on-camera microphone and went to town.

First take...I forgot to turn the mic on...

Second take....The mic is terrible. Waste of money...Cuts out, noisy, etc.

Third take....My old setup with an AKG voice mic plugged in to the camera. Works fine but the video goes too long and the DSLR cuts off. (About 10 minutes of video....)

Grrrr...

So I try it again, cutting out a few things...And the camera cuts off a few seconds too early.
NP....I'll edit!

Well....The camera shoots in .MOV format. I try Windows Movie Maker. Wont accept the format.
Internet says....Download the right codec. So I try the recommended codec set. Doesn't work.
So...Convert the .MOV to something else. Free converter, convert to MPEG 4, run Movie Maker...Snip off the offending end of the video and post...
About 2 hours....

For the 2nd video of the day, I used my old Kodak compact camera which will take 720P video for as long as the battery or the SD card lasts.

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