Andy Aronson at National Semi has done
a great video of Bob.
My
print eulogy is here, as is
a remembrance 5 years later.
Here is how I made the video:
I took the .mov from the Dimage X50. I figured out how to upgrade my Sony
Vegas 9 to 9e and that along with installing the K-lite codec pack and
Quicktime Alternative let me load the mov files intoVegas. I no longer
needed to transcode in VLC. I refuse to install Quicktime on any
computer I own. I went from 15 to 30fps and doubled resolution to
640x480. I used velocity profiles to do the freeze frames and make the
video match the music a little better. It took even longer to figure out
a codec setting. The H.263 would not render but Sony Vegas just fails
and does not tell you what setting the codec can't do. I finally went to
the mainconcept codec and I can't even remember the blizzard of
settings I used for that.
The music is Also sprach Zarathustra,
Op.30, by Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Semyon Bychkov, conductor. I
snagged
the music from the Wayback machine people.
It
is community and public domain near as I can figure. I trimmed the dead
air in the beginning and just faded at an appropriate point using Vegas
audio volume profile. With Vegas up to 9e and the K-lite pack, I did
not have transcode the music into wav, which over-drove it on the
earlier edit.
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