Gretchen's Childhood Home
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My very first (true) digital video production was started and completed in less than a single evening - thanks to the convenience of FireWire and the simplicity of Apple's iMovie. Say what you will about the Macintosh, but it works without forcing you to fuss with anything overly frivolous. When the boys from The Greater Des Moines Partnership paid me a visit the other day, I finally had an excuse to plug in my Canon GL-2. I showed them footage from Gnomedex, and they seemed pretty impressed with the size of our crowd. Well, the camera sat there for another day before I finally decided to dump it into an application. Importing the clips could not have been simpler, I swear. Anyway, if you can remember, my plan was to film scenes around my wife's childhood home - which just so happens to be the family farm. Yes, I married the farmer's daughter. Ha ha. I dumped it to a QuickTime file, exported it as an AVI, then converted it into the Windows Media format for my convenience. So, if you'd like to take a look at where Gretchen grew up, let me take you on a tour of the Hundling Farm.
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Anonymous
September 27th, 2002
at 10:31pm
Im using an XP PC to do the DV editing of my baby Steven. Each episode of “the B files” has been a challenge with the software I have. I wish I could get an iMac to do such a job with because I know it would be a lot better. But I need to get another PC to throw W2K Server on to get experience with my MCSE training.
Tried to win the one on techtv but they didn't want to call me. haha …
An iMac would be my next after that for just the graphic editing alone. ;)
Anonymous
September 27th, 2002
at 10:31pm
Sadly, that was entertaining. I think I need a life.
Anonymous
September 27th, 2002
at 10:48pm
What are you saying, Sean, that the farm can't be entertaining? That farmers have no lives? Don't make me come over there… ;)
Anonymous
September 27th, 2002
at 11:52pm
Chris, That was SO GREAT! I grew up on a dairy farm and the video brought back some great memories. What an incredible way to live. Looks like the corn crop didn't fare too well this year across the US. I hope Gretchen's parents were able to salvage some of it. I loved the scene with the pigs. Pigs are cute, their faces are so innocent. I haven't been able to eat meat since I was a child and I named my first cow! Thanks for sharing the video Chris and Gretchen!–Thom
Anonymous
September 28th, 2002
at 12:13am
Pigs, and geese, and chickens — oh my! Great video!
Anonymous
September 28th, 2002
at 5:33am
Impressive video, both for its content and its design. Nice job!
Anonymous
September 29th, 2002
at 8:40pm
Wow, reminds me of my grandma farm. Unfortunately, that's in Wisconsin not Iowa
Anonymous
October 1st, 2002
at 9:53pm
that's awesome! good job! i download some trailers from roger avary's new film “the rules of attraction” and put together my own trailer.
http://bozzysworld.com/videos/rules.mov
the entry is still on my main index too.
Anonymous
October 1st, 2002
at 9:55pm
i should warn you that the content of my trailer is at least R, probably NC17 so minors dont click.
Anonymous
October 2nd, 2002
at 5:36pm
I was impressed with the informative video on farm life in Iowa. Good timing with the background song & video also!
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