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.
httpvp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=CA794612F4C786FD
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.
