{"id":4906,"date":"2017-06-14T22:05:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T05:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/?p=4906"},"modified":"2017-06-15T12:58:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T19:58:48","slug":"first-world-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2017\/06\/first-world-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"First World Problems!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello Gang!<\/p>\n

Whew – it’s been a challenging week! \u00a0I’ve been unable to accomplish any single task, and have spent the week jumping like a frog jumping from lily pad to lily pad. \u00a0Only I’m not a frog, and instead of lily\u00a0pads, I was moving from problem to problem. \u00a0It’s been a week of learning and lessons in patience. \u00a0Technology was not my friend, and the result, I’m a bit behind on my #bellydancemakeupchallenge.<\/p>\n

\"\"We Pause this Challenge for Technical Difficulties<\/h3>\n

My iPhone updated and my camera developed some unusual problems. \u00a0This most recent video was shot last week Friday, but there were obvious problems with the camera. \u00a0It fell into slow motion, at random throughout the clips I made! \u00a0So I shot a “makeup” makeup video the following day, and the video clips all had the same problem, patches of random slow motion. \u00a0I turned my phone off and on, I updated all my software and then shot the\u00a0third video. \u00a0And… unfortunately, it failed again! \u00a0It was quite a frustrating three days!<\/p>\n

Saving the Video Footage<\/h3>\n

I downloaded all the video clips to my computer and began to experiment with the problematic footage. After many hours of experimentation, I wound up cutting the video clips into tiny bits, and then I adjusted the speed of each one until it ALMOST sounds normal. \u00a0I have learned so much about iMovie, and I couldn’t have gotten this video made without the help of the O’Reilly book, “iMovie: The Missing Manual.” \u00a0 Not every feature of iMovie is intuitive, so I have been very happy with this book. \u00a0I bought my copy over on Amazon<\/a>. \u00a0This video has about 12 hours invested in it! \u00a0So much time that I decided to ditch and reshoot the two other compromised videos.<\/p>\n

Day 8 – Extreme Eyeliner (hooded eyes)<\/h3>\n