Crow with Chicken Tender, Creating Audio, and Screech Owl
First off, the crow...
There are times when the freezer gets packed with stuff that we simply will never eat. You know the culprits - the leftovers that weren't all that good to begin with, the food that was on sale and would have been overpriced at half the cost, the recipes that didn't quite work out. It's not that there's anything actually wrong with the stuff... It's just that it ain't gonna' get eaten. From time to time I clean out a little of the "lesser foods" and give it to the crows. Hence the snapshot above.
About the issue of scratching an MP3 out of a video file... Well here's a good example. But what's the actual process to make it happen? To make it sharable?
Here's a thumbnail sketch of the basic process I use...
- First record in a digital camera like the Mino. (If you can't record onto a digital cam, record nonetheless, and find a way to convert into a digital format.)
- Back up your original work and set the backup aside!
- Use the appropriate software (in my case the FlipVideo software) to export as an AVI file to the proper folder.
- Import that file into something like Microsoft Movie Maker.
- Edit as needed and save. Remember, your concern here is audio.
- Use some sort of converter software to strip out the audio and convert it into MP3. I use "WM Converter" (a free download from ZDNet).
- Next, get your hands on a quality audio editing program (I use Audacity, another free program this time from the PCWorld download site) and edit your MP3 to suit.
- To make your audio available to all, upload it onto an audio hosting service. I use HoundBite.
Onward! Talk about serendipity... the other night a screech owl decided to perch nearby. And here are his efforts.
What a blast...
See you by the feeders,
CapeCodAlan
P.S. Breaking news! Madison Wisconsin has just made the plastic pink flamingo its official "City Bird"! (Ummm... Maybe it's just me... But don't our elected officials have more important things to focus on?)
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