This weekend I explored the boundaries of you tube and discovered it ain’t as easy as I thought to post a video.  Last week I learned how to use my brand new digital camera when I filmed my husband’s band in concert. The video was shaky and it really needed a dedicated mike but the results pleased me, after all I managed to do it.  I uploaded the segment  onto my home pc, downloaded Microsoft Movie Maker and played with the raw materials.  Happily, the mouth movements and the vocals matched up.  The background noise overwhelms the vocals through most of the piece but hey its my first effort.  Even Spielberg had to start somewhere and I like the video quality.  Now that I had a video, I boldly entered the world of You Tube.  Signing up for  a membership wasn’t too difficult but successfully loading proved a time consuming challenge. The video was rejected for size; all submissions must be under 5 minutes and 100 mb.  Back to Movie Maker, I cut the piece into sections and returned to You tube and was rejected again because the file parameters were not compatible with the You Tube system.  Return to Movie Maker, poke at the problem and reapply to You Tube.  Success!  IT is online.  But the quality I saw when watching it through movie maker disappeared.  Why? The visual presentation appears grainy and blurry.  It is amazing that 12 year old kids master the skills to make a high quality product as exhibited on the Mabry Middle School site.  After struggling with the applications I developed a deeper appreciation of both the technique and artistry of classroom videos.  As for my video its not quite ready for a link here; I want to try and correct the blurry visuals first.