I made it on the Channel 5 CBS Eyewitness news

So I was at Best Buy one day and looking at a 10" HP netbook when all of a sudden a CBS News reporter snuck up behind me and asked me if I wanted to be interviewed. I thought to myself that it would be fun to see myself on TV. I've always had a bad habit of sneaking in front of new cameramen to try to get myself on TV. But this was an actual speaking role! In any case, I was too nervous and mumbled dumb things to the reported and they didnt air my interview. But they did get my face and my hands. I believe it aired on the 6pm news, but I missed it. But found it of course on the Internet.

You will see me at 1:09 minutes into the video.
http://cbs5.com/video/?id=42871@kpix.dayport.com

Elmo Live

Time to stock up on this one for this Christmas. Let the hunting begin...

Disappearing Car Door

I need this installed on my car. More info.

Anjelah Johnson: Nail Salon

Adobe Premiere Express

Now you can instantly edit videos online with Adobe Premiere Express. You dont need to download, install, or even buy it. All you need is your browser. And amazingly no extra browser plugin to install because it uses the ubiquitous flash player. Being able to edit video in your browser? Now that's powerful. What's next...online Photoshop? Ummm...actually yes. That's coming out soon too.

Usually, you would have to edit your videos on your computer using expensive video software, then output it to the correct format, then upload it to an online video sharing site. Also, to take a step back, you would have to first learn how to use the video editing software. And not to mention have a pretty decent computer for processing. So let's say you have digital video camera and you want to share your footage online. Well now, you can just extract the video from your camera, upload the video to youtube and then make your simple edits online.

If you've uploaded video's to youtube, you can edit your existing videos using the YouTube Remixer. Have fun!

MTV Video Remixer
YouTube Remixer
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80's cartoons

Ohhh man.This video brings back some good memories. I might be biased, but I believe that the 80's had the best cartoons ever. And I love and remember all of their theme songs. The video isnt comprehensive, but it has a lot of classics. Hopefully, someone will come out with a video of ALL the 80's cartoons. Good memories. Enjoy.

Video on the Web - Update

Last year i researched and tested out dozens of video sharing sites so that I can post and manage my personal videos online. Unfortunately, I couldnt find one that I liked.

In my intial post about video on the web, I stated that I wanted 4 key features:
1. Quality
2. Flash Video
3. Sharing
4. Free

Most of the sites satisfied all of them except for the MOST important one - quality. Seems like all the sites had really bad quality when they do their conversion to the flash format. Sorry, but i just cant accept that. Youtube videos look really bad.

So until those video sites get better in their quality, I'll stick with my very manual but better quality method. I use Adobe premiere elements to edit and export the video. Then I use Flash Video Exporter that comes with Flash Pro 8 to optimze and convert the file to flv. And as a result, a much better quality video. Check out this silly video of my son.

Video on the Web

As you may have noticed, video on the web is exploding. There are websites popping up left and right (ie. Google video, YouTube, ourmedia, vsocial, sharkle, clipshack, grouper, vimeo, revver, videoegg), where you can store and watch videos. Im currently looking for a place to store my videos of Caden. Its too much work managing and handling videos on my website on my own. Why do so much work when I can let a third party site do the work for me? All of the sites have many different restrictions, formats, rules, etc.

For my videos, Im looking for 4 key components:
1. Flash Video - the format of video when played should be using Flash technology. This makes a clean experience. The video should load and play right into the browser. There is no need to download or open a separate player.
2. Quality - The quality has to be somewhat decent.
3. Sharing - I need the ability to embed the video right into my blog. And I also need the ability to share my library of videos publicly on that site.
4. Free - Of course and no upload limit.

The sites that I really like is videoegg and sharkle. Videoegg is really easy to use and the quality was good. The only thing they did not have is the capability to share a library of videos. Im only able to post to my blog.

Still testing out sharkle. But check out the music video below.

Super Mario Brothers Live

Im getting addicted to watching videos online. Here is a good one that we'll probably use for puppetry some day.

Lasik video

As promised, stacie created a short video of my lasik procedure.