{"id":1709,"date":"2021-12-18T03:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emme.socialduchess.com\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2021-12-18T03:25:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T03:25:00","slug":"video-happy-birthday-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/18\/video-happy-birthday-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Happy Birthday to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On my birthday this year I had some spare time so I decided to make a slideshow of photos and videos from all the years past.  Well, all the years that show up on my Amazon Photos &#8216;Look Back at This Day&#8221; section, that is.  So basically from 2006-2020 with a few years left out or represented by a single cupcake photo.  I added in a few snapchat videos over the years to spice it up a little bit too, and I was so excited to post it up on my birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My video software had other ideas, however.  I use Adobe Rush lately to make all these videos and I tried everything and then some to get the mash-up to render properly, but all the video clips for some reason were showing up very wonky.  I even tried editing it in Premiere Pro on my actual computer, but I still could not make it work and by that point my birthday was nearly over and I was just done with the whole thing, so I just wrote it off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fast forward to yesterday, I downloaded my latest phone update.  I have been pretty much horribly sick since Christmas so I haven&#8217;t been able to even think of editing any photos or video, but today as it&#8217;s the end of the year I decided hey, I wonder how bad it looks, maybe I can just upload it anyway.  Well, the video was very bad, but somehow when I went back into Rush it looked ok!  So I exported it again and voila &#8211; it actually looked great!  The update must have done some magic.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Birthday Mash-up Slideshow for Mommy (Pics from 2006-2020), Behind the Scenes from Birthdays Past!\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bxi4SwboVTc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So there you have it, a quick video mash-up of about 20ish random years in a semi-random order of my birthdays past.  Maybe next year I will make a more polished version, but after all the work I did on my birthday this year, I&#8217;m very chuffed with it.  I know I&#8217;ll love looking back on this on birthday mornings to come and I can tell it will make me smile and feel very nostalgic in the future, especially since next year is the big 4-0!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hope you enjoyed seeing a peek at my past birthday days, and hope you have a great Holiday Season and a Wonderful New Year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my birthday this year I had some spare time so I decided to make a slideshow of photos and videos from all the years past. Well, all the years that show up on my Amazon Photos &#8216;Look Back at This Day&#8221; section, that is. So basically from 2006-2020 with a few years left out or represented by a single cupcake photo. I added in a few snapchat videos over the years to spice it up a little bit too, and I was so excited to post it up on my birthday. My video software had other ideas, however. I use Adobe Rush lately to make all these videos and I tried everything and then some to get the mash-up to render properly, but all the video clips for some reason were showing up very wonky. I even tried editing it in Premiere Pro on my actual computer, but I still could not make it work and by that point my birthday was nearly over and I was just done with the whole thing, so I just wrote it off. Fast forward to yesterday, I downloaded my latest phone update. I have been pretty much horribly sick since Christmas so I haven&#8217;t been able to even think of editing any photos or video, but today as it&#8217;s the end of the year I decided hey, I wonder how bad it looks, maybe I can just upload it anyway. Well, the video was very bad, but somehow when I went back into Rush it looked ok! So I exported it again and voila &#8211; it actually looked great! The update must have done some magic. So there you have it, a quick video mash-up of about 20ish random years in a semi-random order of my birthdays past. Maybe next year I will make a more polished version, but after all the work I did on my birthday this year, I&#8217;m very chuffed with it. I know I&#8217;ll love looking back on this on birthday mornings to come and I can tell it will make me smile and feel very nostalgic in the future, especially since next year is the big 4-0! I hope you enjoyed seeing a peek at my past birthday days, and hope you have a great Holiday Season and a Wonderful New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}