Well I have finally finished doing the now version of the DVD we post out and I don't want to see another boat picture again ever!

I made the mistake of trying to be clever and use Windows Movie Maker to do this instead of using some of the old fashioned ways of doing it, this turned out to be a big mistake although Movie Maker is probably alright for doing your holiday video and snaps with it most certainly isn't the thing to be working on for a project with hundreds of pictures. The thing crashed screwed up the project files and was an absolute nightmare to work with and then to make matters worse the video generated is in Windows Media Video format that no other software will work with because of Microsoft's copyright issues! When I tried to upload the things to Google video it wouldn't recognise the format on files over a certain size, so I had to rip the file back off a DVD and trans-code these back to mpeg-4 a very long winded way of doing things indeed.

Anyway you can take a look at the results HERE obviously these aren't DVD quality but they are watchable.

You know I thought I was paid to sell boats!