Windy tennis
My Flip Video (I have the 2GB/60 min, black) arrived last week and I finally got the chance to play with it today. Unfortunately the weather didn't cooperate. Dan and I had to deal with 15-20 mph wind while trying to film our tennis swings. You can hear the wind noise in the background, it's kind of hard to miss! Here is a short clip of what we did:
You can see the full version (17:07) on Vimeo.
Transferring the video clips from the Flip to my Mac was a breeze. The Flip appears as a USB drive when plugged in so I can just copy the files across to my hard drive. Editing is a little tricky. The Flip uses a DivX MP4 encoder so the video files are not recognized by iMovie '08. After some Googling and experimentation, I decided to fork out some hard earned cash and got a license for QuickTime Pro. QTPro exports the clip to standard MP4 easily and quickly, utilizing all 4 of my MacPro cores. And editing in iMovie '08 pretty easy too. I was able to put this short clip together in about 5 minutes, even though I have no prior experience with iMovie '08 or video editing. It would be perfect if Apple fixes iMovie so that in the future it would just recognize the Flip video without any transcoding.
Productive Friday
Accomplishment of the day:
- Went to the gym
- Drop clothes to dry-cleaner
- Got haircut
- Visited chiropractor
- Arranged dim-sum lunch with cousin and his girlfriend
- Edited ThoughtWorks podcast using GarageBand for the very first time
- Caught up with lots of outstanding podcasts
- Updated my iPhone code to beta 5 SDK's new API
- Watched Turkish F1 GP Friday practice
- Watched two days of Daily Show & Colbert Report from two weeks ago!
- Read last week Autosport
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