Well as Some of you know I have just returned from delivering a boat to the south of France, Nice to be exact. We left Mallorca on Tuesday morning and arrived in Ampuria Brava late the same day. The following morning we set off again to cross the Gulf of Lyon, as you will see in the video below we encountered some pretty heavy seas.
What the video does not convey terribly well is how big the sea was. Imagine if you can 35 tonnes of boat sliding sideways down the face of a wave, quite unnerving ! I´m very pleased to be back in one piece
There are two videos below. The first is a video diary of the trip and the second is the first of a series of tutorials that I have planned for video production. In the first tutorial I show you how I use Windows Movie Maker. If you want to ask me any questions please feel free !
The second video which will be posted tomorrow is telling you where you can find lots of free content for your own video such as music clips, photos and free video.
Anyway I´m raring to get going again so onwards and upwards..
the video below is the tutorial for windows movie maker, I need to apologise for the audio being a bit low in parts, I hope it doesn´t spoil the video to much for you, a new mike has been ordered.
I would love to get some feedback from you, and if there are any subjects you want me to cover please tell me.
As a few of you know I´m away until Thursday night. Myself and a friend are delivering a boat to Nice (southern France) We made land fall at midnight in a town called Ampuriabrava on the northern Spanish/French border after leaving Mallorca this morning at dawn. the passage could only be described as interesting !
The Mediterranean sea in the middle of winter is a wild place, miles away from the pictures you will find in the Summer holiday brochures. Tomorrow we leave at dawn again to cross the gulf of Lyon which even in the middle of Summer can be a bit daunting, so we will have to see what she throws at us tomorrow.
Hopefully by Friday afternoon I will be posting the first in a series of video tutorials that are going to be specifically biased towards those people who are struggling with video production. I have spent quite a number of hours hunting down some Free programmes and public domain music, photos for you to use without fear of coming into contact with copyright laws.
Sorry for the short post, but I´m hungry, wet and very tired and I feel as if I´m typing with Frankfurter sausages..
Just a quicky post to steer you in the direction of Gary Simpson´s blog. He has a poll running at the moment for anyone who want´s to cast their vote, to show wether you are a ¨Happy Pappy¨ or a ¨Hater Tater¨ . I gather the poll was brought about because Gary holds the positions 1 and two on the first page Google for the phrase ¨Alex Jeffreys Brainstorming¨.
The really stupid thing is that another phrase ¨Alex Jeffreys scams¨ sends Gary most of the traffic as, go figure that one !?!
Anyway to cut a long story short, all you Alex lovers go to Gary´s site and show a bit of love to our Alex. Gary has even given us an incentive to cast our votes by turning ¨no follow¨ off for all comments made. All you have to do is link to the post with the words ¨Alex Jeffreys¨.
If you have seen Gary´s blog morphing over the last few days then you better believe it´s a good idea to get a little link love from Gary, because his site will soon be taking off like a rocket, I for one am going to go for the ride, holding on real tight !
The video below is my entrant into the competition that Alex spoke about in the last webcast. I had such a laugh editing all the bloopers out of the video, then I thought to myself why not leave them in at the end so you can all have a giggle at my many mistakes !
I hope you enjoy what you see.
Please feel free to leave comment on whether or not you like my attempts, all comment equally received good or bad =O)
