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HD Video: A Qeirstyn Morning

Hello Family and Friends!

I’m extremely excited to present you with Qeirstyn in HD video for the first time! Here, I’m sharing a moment of a typical Qeirstyn morning– playing with an assortment of toys in the living room. In this video, it’s about 9:00AM and Qeirstyn is enjoying her playtime with Dad.  They played with a bunch of toys, played some catch, and made some noise.  Enjoy!

For those of you like me who love to know the technicals of a video, it was shot with a Canon HG10 AVCHD Camcorder in 1440×1080 HD resolution and automatic settings. Edited, encoded, and resized with Sony Vegas Pro 8 to a final resolution of 1280×720 for upload to Vimeo. When the video is embeded into a website like above, Vimeo takes away the HD options and scales the media down even more. To see the highest streaming HD resolution, click on the appropriate link below the embedded video.

To be even more technical, here’s some figures:

• Raw AVCHD (.MTS) footage: 744 MB.
• Encoded in .MP4: 213 MB.
• Vimeo conversion time: Approx. 1 hour, 15 minutes.
• Video length: 6 minutes, 30 seconds.
• Encoding length: 1 hour, 39 minutes, and 31 seconds
  • On a computer with:
    • Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz CPU
    • 1 GB RAM