Video

This is the video I told you about, the one I made as a keepsake for my friend's birthday. I didn't show it before because I thought the music was breaking copyright laws. Apparently it's not quite as serious as that. The video is a bit on the long side so feel free to skim through some of the pictures.

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Having moaned recently about the updated Windows Movie Maker I decided to persevere. I took some pictures of Lake Bled in Slovenia and played around with the Movie Maker until I felt I was beginning to understand it. This is the result.

Moving on. I then gathered pictures of the day out with friend Judy and compiled a video she could keep as a reminder of her birthday.

On the ones I’d done before I included music provided by Windows. It was simple. Add music, it said, so I did. Press here, it said, so I did. There were three tunes to choose from, one was used on the first video I tried (and recently posted) and another one that you hear on this compilation of Lake Bled pictures. The third tune I used for Judy’s keepsake.

The result of the whole thing was quite good. The pictures were in the right place and the captions worked well. I was able to twist the captions so that they ran down the side instead of across the pictures, a pleasing end result.

When I was thoroughly satisfied with the whole thing I pressed the Add Music button. No problem. It was regulated (not by me) to fit the whole video. Dead chuffed, I was, so I posted it to YouTube and vowed to show it on the blog.

However, I soon received an email from YouTube to say that the music broke copyright laws. The other tunes hadn’t, so why this one?

So after hours of working on the video I found I couldn’t do anything with it. Don’t you think it’s bad of Windows to include music that is copyrighted? They should at least warn people about it. It wasn’t much of a tune, either, more of a continuous beat.