Well, our local paper here in the FW had a cooking demo video contest to win Tix to the "Taste of the Super Bowl" fundraiser. I found out about the contest Thursday morning and the deadline was the next day. The irony is that the day before I ordered a small mobile camera from Amazon.com because I thought it would be fun to post cooking videos. So, armed with my cell phone, I thought what the heck, 'anymonkeycan' make a 3 min cooking video with a cell phone in 24 hours!
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I shot 8 clips that afternoon of "this monkey" making my new favorite 'Roasted Cauliflower Arugula Salad' And I thought, 'Wow, the hard part is over.' Little did I know...
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Because the video format from the cell phone wasn't recognized by the Microsoft Movie Maker. So I asked Google what I should do. And google answered, 'Download a free file converter.' So I did.
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The first one worked for the audio only, but the screen was dark. Since I was doing video, not radio, I asked the mighty Google again, 'What should I do.' And google answered, 'Try a different free file converter.' So I did.
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This one gave me audio and video, the audio was good but...the video was in fast motion. It was comical, especially the cauliflower chopping part, but this wasn't what I was shooting for. It was now after midnight, so I called it a day.
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The next day, Google had another answer ready and...It worked!! So with knuckles bloodied, but my spirit strong I pushed forward and finally, through the steep learning curve, I persevered!
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So, here it is. The world premiere of:
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"Roasted Cauliflower Arugula Salad" (a 3 min Short)
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I'm here to say, I'm sure there was an easier way to do it and I wish I would have found it!!
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Enjoy and it's always fun to laugh at yourself!!
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Oh, and BTW, the Amazon video camera arrived Friday evening! Ha!!
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