MY NETRIOTIC DUTY

I have a bunch of videos I want to show my students, but my classroom doesn’t have the resources to show them any video clips, and I don’t have a laptop to bring in anyway. I’ve been putting videos on the HTEC site, but I can’t be sure that everyone will have the codecs to view them, or will even have access to the site on anything other than a public computer. So I’ve been trying to mess around with video editing so I can cut out some important clips and upload them to YouTube for everyone to see.

I honestly feel somewhat guilty for not having put anything on YouTube until now, as if I didn’t register for the draft or something. So I uploaded my first ever video last week, of Bush’s recent foray into French existentialism. Amazingly, the video has already been viewed over 1500 times, which I’m sure says something about something.

In any case, it was frighteningly easy to cut the clip and upload it, so I thought it’d be a good way of preparing clips for class. However, the other films I’m trying to cut together are all much larger files, and much harder to deal with, especially given YouTube’s 10 minute/100 meg file limit. My second attempt is uploading at the moment, I’ll update this post when its up and running.

edit: Here we go