This announcement is being used to show the membership what can be done with video. You should use a high speed broadband Internet connection to view this video blog.

The video was taken with a Mac laptop using it’s new built in video camera. The Apple software used is called Photo Booth. It works fantastic for plain old photos, but gives a mirror image when doing video. You will notice the spelling on Mike’s chapter t-shirt is not readable. When one uses a laptop out in the sunlight, you cannot see the movement of the arrow curser on the computer screen. So we had our problems with that. We didn’t see the mirror image results until we were done. The PJM plant is really over his right shoulder, not his left. For those interested, the video was taken using the standard 4:3 ratio TV screen size. When I did some conversions using some Apple movie software, I changed the ratio from 4:3 to the new HDTV ratio of 16:9. What that really does is cuts off some of the upper and lower parts of the standard 4:3 standard TV picture.

This might be considered a very large size QuickTime movie. (31.4 MB) Do not start the movie until the loading bar gets past Mike’s face. Sorry for the large size. In a couple of weeks, I will present this movie in the standard 3:4 ratio. You can then do a comparison as to which style you like best.

In the future I will just shoot short video blogs using my point and shoot digital camera on a tripod. Those should turn out just fine.

Here is the LINK to the video.