Merrrryyy Christmas!

Christmas is great, isn't it? This year, I wanted to capture the memories in a cooler way than normal. Thus, we have video! Enjoy.



Most of this was done in iMovie. The timelapsed portion of opening presents was captured via my iSight with a program (for Apple computers only, sorry guys!) called Gawker (thanks Marc for the idea). I did have a minor problem, though, with the QuickTime file that Gawker shot out when it finished--for some reason, neither iMovie, iPhoto nor iTunes would import the file. Long story short, I was told by Apple's Help Desk to purchase QuickTime Pro so that I could re-export the file (the current version of Gawker was written for Mac's Tiger operating system and I have Leopard). But, since you can find just about anything on the Web, I went on a search for a FREE way to convert this file. I was in luck! I found Media Convert which did the conversion for free and all was finally well with the file.

I'm definitely learning these programs--the ins AND the outs!

P.S. The music is, as credited, Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Wizards in Winter."

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.