I've been hanging out with the video blogging folks for some weeks now, but, back here at home, I've been doing video without a blog and blog without a video (this) - until now.
They keep telling me it's easy, so here's my first attempt. This is a WMV (Windows Media) video, uploaded as a file to TypePad and then I had to fiddle with the raw HTML in the TypePad editor to get it to show. It doesn't play in the popup window the way I'd like, instead it opens Windows Media Player (I have no idea what will happen on a Mac). Oh, well. Still learning.
This is for my videoblogging friends, and of little interest to foodies, unless you were dying to see me in my kitchen (I was making the previously-mentioned dal). This video was a quick experiment, and so far I've learned that I don't like myself in front of the camera (gotta get used to that, I guess). I will have to study more cooking shows to see how it's done. In Italy, cooking shows include cute but stupid announcers jumping in and asking dumb questions. I don't have any of those handy, and my kitchen isn't that large, so I will need to find some other format. Alton Brown of Good Eats is more my style, and besides, he's one of the few people I know named Alton - my dad is another one.
Stylistic point: if I had a video editing tool that would would do it, I would have accelerated from normal speed to 10x or higher by the end, but the Windows Movie Maker only goes to 2x. The drone in the background really is a helicopter; they fly over the lake from time to time, on the way to mountain rescues or the hospital or something. Or maybe these days it's security, since Kofi Annan is vacationing in Bellagio.