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February 27, 2006
April 18, 1992 - Paper Rolls
This video was shot by my dad back in April of 1992 after a hearty family lunch at The Spaghetti Warehouse. This will be of interest to family, although it is an good example of excellent motion stabilization using iStabilize for the Macintosh if you are into that sort of thing. The stars of the video, in order of apperance, are my nephew Zachary Myers, my ex-brother-in-law Mikol Myers, my cousin Laura Arthur, my eldest daughter Rachel Dickson, me (looking like a total dweeb in glasses), my sister Shelley Myers and my ex-wife Kim Farley. My father Kelly Dickson is featured as a disembodied voice. Cutest Moment: my daughter Rachel dancing to While My Guitar Gently Weeps at about time marker 7:40. The only other interesting detail (to me anyway): all of the music in the background of this video was playing on the stereo when the camera was rolling. However, I "sweetened" the audio track by running it through some denoising algorithms (to eliminate hiss, buzz and hum) then I mixed back in full stereo versions of the songs to closely match the recorded levels. The result is quite nice compared to the original video. Below are links to three digital formats for this video: Windows Media 9, Quicktime 7 (h.264) and a form which is playable on the Apple Video iPods. Windows Media 9 Format19920418_paper_rolls.wmv (Right-click and save the linked file to your hard disk.) Apple Video iPod Format
19920418_paper_rolls.m4v (Right-click and save the linked file to your hard disk. You may need to remove a ".txt" ending from the file name for the video to work properly.) Quicktime 7 Format
Posted by Nathan Dickson at February 27, 2006 07:35 AM