It took me about 20 minutes to edit the video with Virtual Dub. 
(Apparently a 20-minute DVD decompresses to 29 GB of video. And 
apparently just copying that amount of data around takes a really long 
time. VD wasn't even using 10% CPU; it was *all* I/O time.) I had to 
find the correct segment of video (even though VD refuses to decode the 
sound that I now have the propper codec for), cut it out, scale it to 
get the correct aspect ratio, crop it to the right size, realign the 
sound with the picture (??!) and transcode it into something small 
enough to upload.

It then took me 7 seperate attempts, over the course of 3 days, to 
actually upload the ****ing file. (For some reason, every page on 
YouTube has to be selected 12 or 15 times before it will actually, like, 
*load*.) YouTube kept aborting the upload after about 20 minutes. (FWIW, 
the video is 40 MB in size - pretty huge for an upload, but tiny by 
video standards.)

But after many hours of work, the video is finally here in all its 
glory, for all teh interwebs to see:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Z-mokvpoo

I wonder how many days it will be before some 12 year old posts a 
comment telling me I suck?

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On 05-Nov-08 11:41, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> It took me about 20 minutes to edit the video with Virtual Dub. 
> (Apparently a 20-minute DVD decompresses to 29 GB of video. And 
> apparently just copying that amount of data around takes a really long 
> time. VD wasn't even using 10% CPU; it was *all* I/O time.) I had to 
> find the correct segment of video (even though VD refuses to decode the 
> sound that I now have the propper codec for), cut it out, scale it to 
> get the correct aspect ratio, crop it to the right size, realign the 
> sound with the picture (??!) and transcode it into something small 
> enough to upload.
> 
> It then took me 7 seperate attempts, over the course of 3 days, to 
> actually upload the ****ing file. (For some reason, every page on 
> YouTube has to be selected 12 or 15 times before it will actually, like, 
> *load*.) YouTube kept aborting the upload after about 20 minutes. (FWIW, 
> the video is 40 MB in size - pretty huge for an upload, but tiny by 
> video standards.)
> 
> But after many hours of work, the video is finally here in all its 
> glory, for all teh interwebs to see:
> 
> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Z-mokvpoo
> 
> I wonder how many days it will be before some 12 year old posts a 
> comment telling me I suck?
> 
Yes, kids tend to be more honest than adults.

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>> I wonder how many days it will be before some 12 year old posts a 
>> comment telling me I suck?
>>
> Yes, kids tend to be more honest than adults.

Thanks. I feel so much better now. :-P

-- 
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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It's nice to know I'm not the only organ music fan hereabouts.
(I just listen and, to the great benefit of all, do not play.)
Thanks for the post. I quite enjoyed it.

Here's a quick link to something by my favorite organist (and Moog
synthesizer player)E. Power Biggs:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GVu0auaZu7s

Best Regards,
Mike C.

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> But after many hours of work, the video is finally here in all its 
> glory, for all teh interwebs to see:

Heee... Apparently my friend's baby daughter "danced" to my playing! :-D

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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> But after many hours of work, the video is finally here in all its 
> glory, for all teh interwebs to see:
> 
> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Z-mokvpoo
> 
> I wonder how many days it will be before some 12 year old posts a 
> comment telling me I suck?
> 

Good accomplishment.

While I know it's near impossible, don't belittle yourself with how 
others might think.  Was it your goal to impress them, or to do 
something for yourself.



I've often thought it would be fun to learn how to play a musical 
instrument myself.

I stop thinking about it when I realize how mechanical I'll make it sound.



Good Job!

LAter...  Tom

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>> But after many hours of work, the video is finally here in all its 
>> glory, for all teh interwebs to see:
> 
> Good accomplishment.

Why thank you. :-)

> While I know it's near impossible, don't belittle yourself with how 
> others might think.  Was it your goal to impress them, or to do 
> something for yourself.

Well, I wanted to do it because I like it. But seriously, I spent 
*months* working on this. Some recognition would be nice...

> I've often thought it would be fun to learn how to play a musical 
> instrument myself.
> 
> I stop thinking about it when I realize how mechanical I'll make it sound.

Heh. It depends. I've been practising for decades, but even when I first 
started, I quickly became fairly good at it. It takes some doing to get 
to the point where you can play fluidly - but it is *so* worth it when 
you get there! :-D

I play keyboards. Once you know how to play something on a keyboard, you 
know how to move your fingers in the right way. If you can reach that 
stage, learning other stuff becomes much easier. (Easier compared to 
somebody who's never played in their life, that is. Some tunes never 
become "easy"...)

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>  (FWIW,
> the video is 40 MB in size - pretty huge for an upload, but tiny by
> video standards.)

Ouch!  With the way my so-called DSL has been performing lately, that would take
about 8 hours to download.

(You all who are doing the math, those numbers are correct:  old-fashioned
dail-up leaves my DSL standing still in the dust.  Yet no one in my household
seems to be taking me seriously about it.  Except for my niece when she barges
into my room ordering me to get off YouTube and quit hogging the bandwidth,
even when I'm not doing anything.  ("No, my dear *****, there really _is_ a
problem with the Internet service."))

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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Z-mokvpoo

  Congratulations on your first successful youtube video.

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 
> Heh. It depends. I've been practising for decades, but even when I first 
> started, I quickly became fairly good at it. It takes some doing to get 
> to the point where you can play fluidly - but it is *so* worth it when 
> you get there! :-D
> 


Mu understanding is that music is not just pressing keys or hitting 
something.  It is flowing from within and what your fingers or toes do 
just is as expression of that.  Sure, you might be reading sheet music, 
but that's like looking at words while singing a song you know.

I'm too much of a perfectionist.  I would struggle with how to get the 
timing so perfect that I would miss the 'art' of it all.

I would be better off making a jig or writing some program that 
reproduced the music.

But then again - that's already been done.



> I play keyboards. Once you know how to play something on a keyboard, you 
> know how to move your fingers in the right way. If you can reach that 
> stage, learning other stuff becomes much easier. (Easier compared to 
> somebody who's never played in their life, that is. Some tunes never 
> become "easy"...)
> 

I could believe that.  I think just learning what music is, how to read 
it and even just hum it are a great start - I can't even do that.  I've 
'learned' how to read sheet music at various times in my life - just 
never used it enough to actually remember any of it.

Oh to be able to play something from within my head that actually made 
people smile.....  I guess that will be limited to what my programming 
and electronics accomplish - maybe a subject that I actually have a gift in.




Tom

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