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Sydney Nora
Goodbye Song
at Bing
Nursery School
Fuji F810
large AVI file
(10 sec 2.8MB)
Riding the carousel at the SF Zoo
Olympus D-40
Large file
(
10 sec: 1.4 MB)
Swimming in Orlando
Olympus D-40
Large file
(
14 sec: 2.1 MB)
Bouncing
Olympus C-5050
Large file
(
14 sec: 2 MB)
Happy Hollow
Olympus D-40
Large file
(
17 sec: 2.5 MB)
Pony Ride
Olympus D-40
Large file
(10 sec: 1.5 MB)
Snow in Tulsa
Olympus D-40
(6 sec: 0.8 MB)
Baking Cookies
Olympus D-40
(7 sec: 1.2 MB)
Lady Bug
Olympus D-40
(2 sec: 0.2 MB)
Puddle Splashing
Olympus D-40
( 5 sec: 0.7 MB)

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Apple QuickTime files (see note)

The Big Crawl
Olympus C-2020Z

(8 sec: 376 KB)

Squirmy Wormy
Olympus C-2020Z

( 12 sec: 432 KB)

 1st Doctor Visit
Canon Elura

(14 sec: 500 KB)

 The Big Yawn!
Canon Elura

( 193 KB)

The Big Cry!
Canon Elura

(7 sec: 427 KB)

NOTE: You can install/download the free quicktime player from Apple's web site by clicking on this link: install_quicktime

The story behind the movies:

The videos were taken with either a Canon Elura Digital Video Camera (aka the MabelCAM) or an Olympus C-2020Z digital camera.

The Olympus can record up to 15 secs of "high quality" or 30 secs of "standard quality" QuickTime movies without sound. The Quicktime movies were transferred to my computer and edited in Quicktime Player Pro to improve brightness and contrast, reduce frame size and number of frames per second, and finally use the Sorenson compression, all of which reduces the files from around 4 MB direct from the Olympus to 400 KB in size.

The Elura digital video was edited in IntroDV, using a IEEE1394 to connect the DV camera to the computer (now standard in iMacDVs but requires a "firewire" or ilink card for a Wintel machine). IntroDV is an entry level digital video editing program from Digital Origin (formerly Radius). Sections were clipped out of the video footage and combined using different transitions. The resulting 4 and 7 seconds of video takes 16 & 27 MBs, respectively, of disk space! I "threw away" information by reducing the size of the video (hence the "small picture") and cut the number of frames per second in half and saved using lower quality and in the Big Cry changed the compression to Sorenson video for QuickTime.

Hopefully you will be able to view the above video whether you have a Mac or Wintel computer. Let me know if you have any problems or suggestions with the video.