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I thought it would be easy. My digital camera took quicktime movies, quicktime pro made simple video editing a snap. I even managed to add a watermark and a blurb at the end. I thought, I’ll upload it to youtube and use their handy embed feature.

So I upload away, and in a few minutes it’s up. A few more minutes it’s processed. I view it in all it’s splendid glory.

Except the audio is way out of sync. On a 10 second clip you can catch it at the end. In a 30 second clip halfway through it looks like I’m an air guitar god.

And my watermarks are gone. So is the blurb at the end.

I tried every other site out there I swear. Some got the audio/video dead on, only one saved the watermark and it reversed the colors. The audio was out of sync on that site as well.

Obviously it was going to be more difficult then I expected. So I started looking into encoding into a different format. Yet everything I downloaded had the same problem.

Apparently the quicktime format allows multiple video files. My watermarks and blurb weren’t part of my video, they were seperate. When I went to encode the encoder was ignoring my extras.

So I’m stuck at this point with the problem of watermarking video. If I can solve that I can easily covert everything to flash on the site and save bandwidth and probably be a lot easier on the two visitors I have.

In the past I’ve owned a Fender Mexican Strat, a cheap Lone Star acoustic (which played wonderfully) and this Alvarez RF20SM solid mahogany beauty. My only regret is that it isn’t a cutaway, but I just couldn’t get a cutaway that sounded like crap when this gorgeous sounding guitar was sitting there for the same price.


The sound you hear is recorded through the small cheap microphone on my digital camera in the dead of the night. One day I might hook up my acoustic pickup and record the video and audio seperate, but I’m nowhere near that ability in my video editing skills. I also want to tackle my quicktime to flash problems first but that’s another story.

When I first started to play guitar I must admit I was much more creative. This was one of my better creations.

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Apparently in the blogosphere one must do these things to survive. Here is my Technorati Profile which should allow me to claim my site. I’ve also found out that my website is apparently worth $564.54. If only this were true, it would mean my little week into blogging has already matched my monthly salary.