There is always a challenge to building something new - a reality especially met when facing the seemingly infinite nature of the Internet and its ever-expanding base.
Where is one to begin?
How should this thing appear?
Why ever make the attempt? Is there a purpose? And, if so, what?
My purpose in beginning my own YouTube channel (or maybe only "famous" people can actually start a channel; perhaps what I upload will merely exist as videos attached to my YouTube account.) is to document my travels as thoroughly and as completely as is possible. This blog is meant to document the events in words; pictures I upload to my Facebook account will keep my friends in touch with the sights I see; and whatever I record via video completes the circle with the visual and auditory in one, to permit those interested to follow me in my journey.
Now, the question I still need to answer for myself was precisely how - how to create something I knew little to nothing more of than any other Internet surfer seeking enlightenment and entertainment.
The only way to learn is to step forth with the size 13 Wides and begin.
In March, I purchased the new iPad. It sported the still camera and the video camera I would require for these adventurous tasks. In April and May, I began making recordings, initially seeing it as an easy matter: my standing before the video camera and relaying the story of retracing my ancestors' pathway west.
I add two months to this process due to my 'perfectionist' nature. No single recording I attempted sufficed; it all looked horribly bad.
Enter iMovie.
I purchased this app for my iPad and immediately put it to use in editing together the cornucopia of videos into something a bit more interesting. With myself, settled comfortably into various locales, presenting different appearances for some variety and color, I created a first video.
Then I fouled up.
Once this first video on iMovie was done, I decided I needed to free space on my iPad for the future pictures and videos I anticipated once my trip was underway. As one who ardently follows the cardinal rules of backing everything up, I transferred all the videos recorded onto my laptop, where storage was not a problem. I then deleted the same videos from the iPad (some I maintained); and suddenly I had a problem.
Holes, Holes, Holes...
Though the iMovie project was finished, it still borrowed from the complete videos I edited clips out of. Some of those videos were no longer on the iPad, thus the problem: holes, holes holes...
Okay. No problem. Just reverse everything. Right? I transferred all the videos to my laptop; just transfer everything back to my iPad. Easy as pie, right?
Not quite. Following an evening of failure, I spent an hour and a half on the phone with Apple, spread over two separate calls, to slowly piece together how to restore the videos deleted.
What a headache.
Such should end the story; but, sadly, it does not. The restored videos to my iPad restored the videos I deleted, the videos I needed for a complete iMovie project, while creating repeated versions of videos I kept, thus evaporating the storage space my original intent meant to free.
The problem I now face is deleting videos and photos to free up space without deleting the same videos I need for the first iMovie project.
I am hoping, once the first video - I am calling it "Searching For My Family: Purpose and Place" - is uploaded to YouTube, I can start deleting again, freeing up that space I need. As I write this, it appears only halfway complete in the process. Can I wait around another couple of hours? Will the battery die before the upload is finished? The mysteries of life...
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