Interests:Stamp collecting, web site building, graphic designing, photography, digital photo editing, traveling, teaching, writing, watching TV, playing with grandchildern, eating, sleeping... Expertise:Web site building, storytelling, and philately.
In my posting here of July 18 2009, I had declared that my new passion was video editing, and I had proudly given a link to my editing sample in YouTube (video embedding did not work in Xanga that day).
Four month's later (I had a heart attack in the meanwhile which interrupted my efforts for some time), I am proudly announcing today that I have passed video editing with flying colors. This, of course, is self-proclamation. I did not join any school, did not take any courses, or anything like that. I learnt it all by myself and I think I have learnt it well as an amateur. I have graded myself based on the last 3 videos I produced. This is something similar to submitting final papers before gratuating from a school. I like to think it that way! You be the judge.
Video #1
This video shows several ways of editing and adding special effects to video clips to make your video stand out.
Video #2
This video shows how magical effects can be created in your videos using the chroma key technique.
Video #3
This video shows how to personalize and spruce up your video clips by using the Painting Creator available in Corel VideoStudio Pro X2.
Since I am done with video editing, I now need to move on to something else. But the question is what? May be Latin American Dancing? But for that I need a female partner. I hate the idea of dancing, holding a pillow! Is any reader interested? Please contact me if you are. Thanks.
Thank you Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston ...
... for giving me a third chance at life.
I salute you for your professionalism, expeditious, courteous, and friendly service, compassion, and the highest standards of treatment and medical equipments. I still cannot believe how you wheeled me into the "cath lab" within minutes of my arrival in the emergency room, and within an hour your friendly doctors opened up my two blocked coronary arteries with stents asking me all the while if I was OK. And contrary to last time, I did not have to keep my leg, through which the doctors inserted the catheter to reach my heart, still for eight hours following the "procedure". Thanks to the latest technology and the latest sealant you use to close the opening of the femoral artery. I was allowed to move my leg just after two hours this time!
I am back home to enjoy the long Labor Day weekend with my family after only one night's stay (most luxurious and comfortable stay) in the hospital. I now have two additional stents over and above the previous three stents in my coronary arteries that you had given me five years ago. Amazing! I cannot believe I am still living!!
Hey, want to dress-up your home movies by adding special effects, animated titles, narration, picture-in-picture (PIP), music, etc. before uploading them to YouTube for the whole world to see? Do you want your home movies to stand out over the thousands of other "ordinary" ones?
See the sample movie below. Does it look special to you? Does it look like the camcorder shot it like you are seeing it? Your camcorder can shoot nice videos. You can make them more appealing by good editing. See the sample video first.
You can make this kind of video yourself easily. To learn, see my Home Movie Making Tutorials here. Don't worry. It is Free. No strings attached. I dispense knowledge for FREE. That is my hobby!
I can never understand when people leave an air-conditioned room saying, "I am going to get some fresh air." In my case, while strolling in the city park, I often feel the need to go home to get some fresh air. My home is totally climate-controlled -- heated in winter and air-conditioned in the summer, and I use the bestair-filter that is available in the market. So my indoor air is absolutely free from dust, pollens, smoke, industrial fumes, gases emitted by car exhausts etc. which can be collectively called "allergen-free and carcinogen-free". And that is what I call fresh air. Outside air is never fresh. It always has all kinds of pollutants in it.
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