Pan and zoom

It's been a fruitful day. Several videos have been reviewed and the Gorse Fox has noted where refinements are required. On top of that, yesterday's video of Thailand has been re-edited as many of the effects, automatically applied by iMovie, turned out to be sub-optimal. (A picture of the Silver Vixen that pans from her feet to her chin is not really ideal. A few minutes with YouTube and the Gorse ox saw how to pan and zoom in DaVinci Resolve. The original photos were edited into the timeline and the pan/zoom effects re-applied. Voila! We now have a sensible clip. Watching the video this evening, we have realised that further work is needed on the soundtrack. That can wait until tomorrow.

The Gorse fox has also created two new videos. One told the story of the family when they joined the Gorse Fox in Poughkeepsie in August 1991. The other was the video of our day trip from Poughkeepsie to New York. What is poignant is that most of the clip features the World Trade Center.

Unfortunately, the rest of that holiday didn't get recorded. The Gorse Fox had problems with the video camera and failed to record our trip along the New York State Thruway to Buffalo and across into Canada. Our trip to Toronto, our day at Niagara, our day at Canada's Wonderland, our flight round Toronto with Agent Mulder, our trip around Lake Ontario to Montreal and down into Vermont, our visit to the Trapp Family Lodge and to Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream factory, our journey through New Hampshire and stay in Boston, and eventually the trip back through Rhode Island, and Connecticut on the way to JFK for our flight home. 

On a separate note, Cousteau-cub and the Coventry Hobbit arrived late in the afternoon. They wanted to borrow the Karcher jet spray so that they could clean their patio and paving. They should have some messy fun with that!