I was bored at work (I have a lot of free time....) and I decided to have some fun with iMovie. I made a slideshow of stuff from NASA's Astronomy Photo of the Day archive, with music by Lisa Gerrard. I don't think you can embed video in these forums, so if you want to see it you have to go to my blog. Let me know what you think!

Also, the original file is 128MB, which is too big for my free fileden.com account. I know some of you guys upload big VO video files, what's a good place I can upload the original file so people can download a high quality version, but that I don't have to pay for an account for?

Nice.

http://idisk.mac.com/tertior-Public?view=web

for exemple

Upload it to a tracker... or make your own, and seed it :)

Very cool.

Cool, I'm glad you guys like it. It was way too easy to make.

Tertior: iDisk is cool, but I'm not ready to spend $99/year for something like that.

toshiro: what tracker would you recommend? For the time being I can't really use my laptop to seed anything; the internet is unreliable out where I am.

EDIT: Wow, I was so tired I typed an ampersand instead of a dollar sign!

the pirate bay is cool!

is there a way to put pictures like that together into a movie without them scrolling and zooming all over the fucking place? just wondering cause i'd like to be able to do that for a project of my own.

Ho no, You can Upload on my Public Idisk, I have space,and every body can donwload on my public Idisk
I have 16Giga free...

Nice, I think I will do that, Tertior. Thanks!

epadafunk: The scrolling is the default option in iMovie for a slideshow, but you can turn it off. If you've never imported photos/music for a slideshow in iMovie, it is the most intuitive thing ever; everything is drag and drop. If you click the little crop icon on a picture, you can change the placement setting to "Fit", "Crop" or "Ken Burns". "Ken Burns" is the only option that scrolls/zooms. I used it because not all the photos would fit well doing this widescreen, and also to get an impression of moving through space.

Okay, thanks Tertior! Tertior has offered me space to upload the high quality version of the slideshow. It's 128MB, 960x540 resolution, so it looks much better than it does on Facebook or on my blog.

You can find it by clicking here to get to Tertior's iDisk, and clicking on The Unfolding.m4v.

Thanks again!

oh that's cool!

Thanks. Sadly, Facebook took it down, and YouTube and MySpace won't take it. WMG assholes, they should be paying me for this free advertising of one of their more obscure artists! I'm glad Tertior is hosting it so it can be seen.

you could take the sound out and just tell people to listen to that song while they watch it?

Right, because everyone has a Lisa Gerrard CD lying around. ;)

That's my point... this was excellent advertising in my opinion.

they could always find her on playlist.com i see you use it on your blog, nice.

It's probably safe to say this here....

I wasn't satisfied with the selection on playlist.com (though there's a lot of good obscure stuff there for sure), so I made my playlist in iTunes, then uploaded mp3s to anonymous fileden accounts (multiple for bandwidth reasons) and direct linked them through playlist.com. Sounds like a lot of work, but it's just repetitiveness for a bit then find something to do while the uploads happen. To truly display my taste in music I'd need a much bigger playlist, but those 200 songs are a pretty representative sample of the lesser-known stuff in my library.