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Emily Kuross
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Last Logged In: February 4th, 2009
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Red Light, Green Light by Emily Kuross

February 3rd, 2009 6:24 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Create a stop-motion video, post results.


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EnergyBalancePSA.mov

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A pretend PSA about maintaining a balance between what you eat and how much you move. It's what I'm spending a lot of my time in grad school researching, and it's one of the many things in life that is so simple, yet so hard to do. Personally, I'm especially proud of the rolling cookie. (But I truly can't say why the sound didn't work and the image quality deteriorates at the end. It looks great on my computer! And I've been trying all day to get it to work online and have finally decided to go with this.)



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posted by Waldo Cheerio on February 3rd, 2009 9:06 PM

I like the look of it, and am eager to see your problem solved. I would venture the guess that you made your video in Quicktime Pro. I'm not terribly familiar with the platform, but the compression and sound-issues suggest to me that you sped up the footage, then converted it back to a slowed-down and longer version again.

For some reason the sound still ended up all squeezed together in the first few seconds, and the video segment (not the still-frame composites) lost a lot of detail in the compression and expansion again.

Now, maybe you didn't do any of the compression, and it is a weird side effect of the website's code changing over the .mov format to the .flv playback format. You might be able to avoid that issue if you convert your video to a .flv on your computer, and upload that. Alternately, feel free to post the video to youtube, and embed it like so:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaNDomSYrnB01s]

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posted by Lincøln on February 3rd, 2009 10:33 PM

This same thing happens to me if I try to upload a video straight to my praxis, which is why I know upload to youtube and then link to it in the praxis.
(because I'm not smart enough to fix it)

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posted by Emily Kuross on February 4th, 2009 5:01 AM

Cool. I will make some attempts to fix this up...eventually...if I can spare time from other tasks...

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posted by JJason Recognition on February 4th, 2009 9:05 PM

That was fun and educational both.

Cookie...
posted by Kyle Westwood on February 10th, 2009 5:34 PM

I like this. It just works. Rolling cookie FTW.