. . .or my experiments with Youtube. And they were good let me tell you, for a novice Youtube uploader. I started off with lofty goals. As a part of my yearly round-up I do a Best Films of the Year post, and this time decided to make a Youtube movie to showcase the notable ones. The original plan was to employ Adobe Premiere to make an ethereal work of art. But after several attempts at this, when running Premiere caused my PC to hang up again and again, and calls to Support only resulted in suggestions of optimizing my PC (defrag, they said, defrag), I succumbed to the looming deadline.

A friend of mine would tell me that on New Years, her Dad would pour each one of them a glass of red wine, because what you do on New Years you do throughout the year, i.e.; do interesting stuff because that sort of portends the future. So drink red wine (prosperity, heart health ?) , dance the night away, or watch Avatar again and again and again. But defrag your PC ? I can just imagine that conversation (and that life).

The husband of course is encouraging me onwards. After I’m done with the Movie (or as he puts it “Clip”), he says, it will take a hellishly long time to Upload the video, and then (this with an evil grin) when oh when will I have the time to paint my nails ? My nails, thanks to low-brow technology, are now exquisitely painted, and to prove my point, I walk by where the hubby is hunkered down in Internet surf mode, and flash them under his nose. His offhanded response: “Nice ! Now can you make coffee ?”

So, Windows Media Maker it was. And the result is not quite the carefully timed, delicately nuanced, “just so” production I wanted it to be. But here it is folks, right before the New Year (Deadline met, check). Next year, who knows – it could be a podcast, or a videocast ? I mean, after Youtube, the world IS my oyster, right ?

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