SO - the saga of the English Beat videos continues. My brother took the memory chip from my camera to his pal Ryan at InterAction, aka North Shore computer-guru land. My understanding is that it was a bit of a slog to retrieve - but he managed it in the end. ("Ryan at InterAction, he's bound to give you Satisfaction"...see, I put it in, I put it in...) Now, it ain't perfect, but I am just very, very happy that it exists at all. There is data loss that I have tried to fix with MPEG Streamclip, to no avail. When I uploaded to YouTube, the data loss gets glossed over (good I guess), but that means that the audio & video get out of synch. And it has ended up being an interesting study in subliminal effects - at 1:49 in the video here , you'll find a flash of Hawksley Workman, sideways; the Breeders pop in at 5:03. Watch, and make a game of it - I'm pretty sure you can find Weezer and Black Mountain if you look closely enough... Thinking about it, I may have ended up with far more interesting video files than I started out with.
I have learned my lesson. I will be careful with that little garbage can that sits, taunting me, from my MacBook doc. And I will soon upgrade the memory in my computer so I won't be so "delete" happy.
Here's Tenderness - the out of synch-ness is not too disturbing on this one...though the fact that Jason Collett suddenly appears at the end of the song is a bit whacky...
(& thanks again, brother & Ryan!)
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That's good news that the videos were retrieved. Your brother's friend must be a super-geek. With the snippets of other videos that briefly show up, they end up looking very arty!
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