Turkey-Syria Trip Video
It is amazing how time passes. We took over 1200 pictures on that trip to Turkey and Syria -- the curse of a new digital camera!
Since then we chose about 700 of them and created a video of the pictures, adding some pretty good music and a bit of narration.
I learned a lot in that procedure about iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD, let me tell you! One thing is that NEVER try to make 700 slides into one movie. The file was 24 GB in size! Not megabytes, but gigabytes. I had to buy a 1 terabyte external drive and format it for the Mac in order to back it up. (Windows file format won’t handle files larger than 4 GB.) Not only that, it took about 14 hours to render it down to a DVD. Then, when I sent copies to family, they crashed, so no one but us has seen the entire thing (it plays fine on our Mac, but not on our DVD player, either).
So, I have finally broken it down into 11 segments and put them up on You Tube. You can watch it below.
On the toolbar right above this line, toward the right, is a “360.” Put the pointer on that and select 480 for slightly better quality. Then, click on the box with the 4 arrows pointing out, to the right, to go to full-screen mode. If you have seen part of the video, scroll to one of the following segments. It is all supposed to play sequentially.
Enjoy.
Back from Turkey and Syria
Palmyra Triumphal Arch
We had a fantastic time in Turkey and Syria. The people are as friendly and as hospitable as ever. We hope to get more about that trip posted, but our focus for now will be to finish this website.
We have learned the curse of the digital camera. We took one with us and took over 1200 pictures! It will take awhile to sort through them, but there are definitely a few that are not bad at all.
The logo on the picture is one we had made by a calligrapher in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul. We think it is kind of cool.
