I thought I'd create a movie (slide show) of the photos I took yesterday before the storm. It was expected to be a crazy destructive thing but it slipped rather discreetly to the south of Abbotford, the thunder and lightning being relatively subdued.
The sky, however, proved to be dramatic and ever-changing - so I tried to capture its evolution until I sprinted back home via the bike path in time to watch the weather on TV (not as much fun). The ominous clouds reminded me of our intimate experience of a cyclonic force storm on the NSW/ Queensland border which I captured for a very early blog post here a few years ago (here is the link)
I use Create Movie in Picasa for a quick product, and also scanned itunes with a word search 'storm' to locate an mp3 file to add an audio track. This took all of about 7 minutes and then I uploaded the movie file to my account at Vimeo (my preferred hosting site till something better is found).
It took 30 minutes to 'wait in line' to convert, then I returned to Vimeo (it'll send you an email to politely advise that it is finished) to grab the code for adding it to the blog post. Voila! A movie created without a video camera... and no mucking around.
3 comments:
Nice pics! Very dramatic. And great to see an end product. I've gotta stop being so slack! Thanks for the inspiration.
Beautiful cloudscapes! I love the idea of making them into a video slideshow with a soundtrack.
Thanks. They were all taken over a period of 40 minutes: the sky was constantly changing.
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