This past week we entered our information on a website that supports entrepreneurs and helps them raise money. They "strongly suggest" that you develop a video to share your dream with prospective supporters. Every few months it seems that we see one of these videos in the news, including one last week with the headline, "Is This the Best Startup Launch Video Ever?"
Our friend Scott in Atlanta with Stormer-Brooks Illustration suggested six months ago that we produce a video to post on the Internet. Last week, we finally got around to writing a script and took our Diamond in the Rough (a.k.a. our 8 y/o son) into the woods to shoot the video. When we came home and watched the video, we were disappointed to hear that the wind had played havoc with the built-in microphone and made the video unusable. A few days later we tried again, and that time it worked. Here's a shot of our Diamond in the Rough from the raw video.
We loaded the video onto our home PC and tried to use the ImageMixer software that came with our video camera to edit it. Maybe some techie could figure out how to do something fancy with it, but we couldn't, so we immediately thought of "Wild Man." He is the very creative 13 y/o son of our good friends, the Bennetts. He's already produced a couple of videos with his older brother and sister, and we possess one of the first short stories he wrote several years ago, just in case he ever becomes famous.
Renee invited us to come over and let Wild Man edit our video on their MacBook Pro. Wow, I want one of those, but they're just too darn expensive. Anyway, we started to edit a little after seven Friday night, and about 2 1/2 hours later we were down to the last scene to edit. Then to our horror the software froze! Wild Man and I were almost to the point of tears thinking we had lost all of our night's work.
About that time, Mike came home from work and suggested we shut down the computer and turn it back on. Sure enough, the iMovie software automatically saved our project. After some experimenting, we were able to make the last edits and finished around 10:30 p.m. Wild Man did a great job, not to mention giving up a night of watching the NCAA basketball tournament. We see big things in store for him.
Thanks to Wild Man and his dad, we were able to save the final version and upload it to the Internet that night, though we didn't finish that until about 11:30 p.m. (My apologies again, Mike and Renee, for keeping you guys up that late.) Now we excitedly wait to hear if our project will be approved and put on the website so that the world can view it and decide if they want to support it. We will keep you posted.
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