YouTube newbie

Hey there, everyone.  I am thinking it is time I experiment with making a video and publishing it on YouTube.  Have any of you done this yet, and if so, do you have any pointers?

Walking down Broadway

A weekend ago I was invited to participate in an event in New York City. I arrived into the city much earlier than I had planned, so I had a few hours to wander around and take some photos using my new Sony Cyber-shot digital camera (DSC-W330). Since I had the camera for less than 24 hours, I didn’t have a lot of time to experiment with the various settings, so this was my first trial.  Click on the images to enlarge.

Adventures in landscaping (part 7)

Spring has sprung, and as such it is time to plant the grass.  Over the winter, we had two blizzards that dropped over two feet of snow on the ground.  In December, two feet of cold/dry snow fell, while in February we had two feet of heavy wet snow.  This allowed the ground to absorb a lot of water, making the ground more friendly for me to work in.

But first, let us examine the yard and see how it fared.  As you can see from the pictures below, a lot of limbs and leaves came down during the winter.  There are some nearly-bare sections of the yard where I had experimented the Smart Patch grass seed.  Part of this is due to the erosion caused by the melting snow.  Water runoff has been one of the largest issues I’ve had in this area (as noted before). 

 

Around the corner, the test patch of the Scotts grass seed as well as the area with the seeding soil has held up well.  Definitely a sign that this is the way to proceed this spring.

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Viral videos

One of my favorite ways to relax is to log online and watch viral videos off of YouTube and Google.  There are some great amature videos out there, with some looking like they were made by professional studios.  It impresses me how creative people can be, and to be honest, I wish I had that skill.

Every now-and-then I come across a link that says the video was removed because of copyright and license violations, and it made me start to wonder.  How do you obtain video licensingfor a homemade video? Doing a quick search online, there are in fact services that help you license your material to protect your work (such as mDistribute). In fact, you can even earn money in the process.

So what can I create a video on and publish? I could possibly film how I create some of the elements on my train table, or create an instructional video on how to do origami. But the first thing I need to do is to learn how to do video editing. I should work on that this year!