Another month has come to an end in 2017. This year seems to be flying by. We have continued with our Second A Day project and are loving it more and more everyday.
This month we did a lot of fun things and it was actually really difficult to use just one second per day of a video. We had some days that we could have used three or four different videos and plenty of days that a second or two seemed way too short but we tried to keep it within reason.
I have also been dealing with some technical issues this month that almost sidelined our project. First off, my phone has a major issue with the motherboard that causes it to have severe glitching and static on one side almost constantly. Ironically, the phone still works underneath the static so I could still take videos. I just had some issues doing it because I can still only see half the screen. Until I get home and put the video on the computer, I can't actually see it well enough to know if I got what I meant to get. We've worked through it though and I have a new phone coming tomorrow.
Also, the app I was using on my phone started giving me major issues. All of a sudden it decided that some of my videos weren't worth merging together. It would randomly move them around and out of order and skip some entirely. I became so frustrated that I gave up on the app entirely. I ended up finding a program/app on my computer that works really well. The only catch is that it sometimes decides that my videos are upside down. It just means that every day I have to put the video on my computer and make sure it works because if not, I might need to use another video. I've been taking a few a day just to make sure that I don't end up with a day without a video. Then, I had an issue finding the best way to add music. Eventually I decided to use Windows Movie Maker which is working well so far. I'm hoping it continues to work well when we run out of the first song and need to add a new one in. We are coming in at just over 2 minutes now so this month ended up shorter. That is partially because it is just a shorter month and partially because I was trying to watch the length of clips. There are some I would have liked to make longer but I was trying to keep it under control.
So, we were able to make another month of our video and add it to January. Here it is! January - February 2017 in a Second A Day...
This month we did a lot of fun things and it was actually really difficult to use just one second per day of a video. We had some days that we could have used three or four different videos and plenty of days that a second or two seemed way too short but we tried to keep it within reason.
I have also been dealing with some technical issues this month that almost sidelined our project. First off, my phone has a major issue with the motherboard that causes it to have severe glitching and static on one side almost constantly. Ironically, the phone still works underneath the static so I could still take videos. I just had some issues doing it because I can still only see half the screen. Until I get home and put the video on the computer, I can't actually see it well enough to know if I got what I meant to get. We've worked through it though and I have a new phone coming tomorrow.
Also, the app I was using on my phone started giving me major issues. All of a sudden it decided that some of my videos weren't worth merging together. It would randomly move them around and out of order and skip some entirely. I became so frustrated that I gave up on the app entirely. I ended up finding a program/app on my computer that works really well. The only catch is that it sometimes decides that my videos are upside down. It just means that every day I have to put the video on my computer and make sure it works because if not, I might need to use another video. I've been taking a few a day just to make sure that I don't end up with a day without a video. Then, I had an issue finding the best way to add music. Eventually I decided to use Windows Movie Maker which is working well so far. I'm hoping it continues to work well when we run out of the first song and need to add a new one in. We are coming in at just over 2 minutes now so this month ended up shorter. That is partially because it is just a shorter month and partially because I was trying to watch the length of clips. There are some I would have liked to make longer but I was trying to keep it under control.
So, we were able to make another month of our video and add it to January. Here it is! January - February 2017 in a Second A Day...
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