Art on Disk Webmasters

Every year Douglasville has an outstanding fireworks display to celebrate Independence Day. In 2007 the event was delayed until Labor Day due to the devastating drought in this region. This spring and summer we have had much more precipitation. We photgraphed the fireworks from the front west parkinglot at Arbor Place Mall looking towards Hunter Park.

This 16 minute video was created with our Panasonic HDC-SD1 AVCHD high definition video camera with Dolby 5.1 surround sound. The software used in converting the movie for the web is Moyea Flash Video MX Standard. The Moyea software created a Flash video (.FLV) file for the web which was 27 times smaller than the original .AVI file. In turn, the .AVI file was converted from the 1.6 gigabyte AVCHD format file created by the camera using Pinnacle Studio 12 Ultimate video editing software.

Clicking on the image above will open a new page to show the embedded 1 minute video. Because this is a large Flash file that progressively downloads, it often takes a minute to complete its download before a computer browser will deliver a steady picture and song. We call this a “web development experiment.” Read the rest of this entry »