I had a lovely day yesterday. Not only did I help my dad install some gorgeous new windows in our enclosed front verandah (the old ones quite literally fell apart in our hands as we removed them!) but I did heaps of work on the video preview for “Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimar\u00e3es”.<\/p>\n
In my attempt to purchase the backing music for it yesterday morning, I discovered it had increased in price by about 50% since the month before when I had chosen the music. And then, when going through the checkout, I found that price bore absolutely no resemblance to the final price which ended up being about four times more… Not sure how they calculate these things. I didn’t buy it.<\/p>\n
So I looked elsewhere, and found a lovely upbeat, Latin style piece of music, with classical guitars, approximately the length I wanted. AND it was five times cheaper. Now, that sounds more like what I wanted!<\/p>\n
I downloaded the low-res version, imported it into the video and got the screen transitions working with the music changes. When I was happy with how that worked, I paid for the actual recording, downloaded the full version, and replaced the low-res version with it.<\/p>\n
Quite by accident at the end of the day, Rainbow Girl and I discovered that my computer has an inbuilt microphone (I still don’t exactly know where it is!) and by speaking in the general direction of where I thought the microphone might be, I was able to record a little voice over for the end of the video. It means that you’ll be able to hear what I sound like! It personalises it a little, so you get a bit of me as well as previewing the book.<\/p>\n
Actually, the other day I received an email from a knitwear designer announcing her new book. I’m sure it is a gorgeous book, as all her work is innovative and gorgeous. But I did find myself wishing that there was some sort of preview I could see. That’s one of the reasons why I’m pleased to be supplying my readers with one for my new book.<\/p>\n
So it was a really successful day. \ud83d\ude42 I’m really happy with the video, as despite not having very up-to-date software with which to make it, I was able to create some quite nifty things with it. And apparently the neighbours think our new windows look great.<\/p>\n
When will you get to see the video preview? Very soon, I hope!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had a lovely day yesterday. Not only did I help my dad install some gorgeous new windows in our enclosed front verandah (the old ones quite literally fell apart in our hands as we removed them!) but I did heaps of work on the video preview for “Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimar\u00e3es”.<\/p>\n
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