{"id":737,"date":"2011-08-18T11:59:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T10:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/?p=737"},"modified":"2011-08-18T12:13:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T11:13:54","slug":"sick-of-ninjas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/2011\/08\/sick-of-ninjas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick of Ninjas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while now, as you might be able to tell from some of the comments I made about <a title=\"If you could have your own TV show\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/2011\/08\/if-you-could-have-your-own-tv-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">online broadcast technology<\/a> a couple of weeks ago, I&#8217;ve been dying to make a video series of some sort, because I can&#8217;t quite work out why I haven&#8217;t already.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Today, I have taken a short break from clattering away at my keyboard to try and learn a few video editing skills, using the first few things that I could find near to my desk.\u00a0 Two of those such things happened to be some LEGO figures, so that goes to explain this stupid little stop motion clip that I&#8217;ve created to try and teach myself the basics of video editing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial;\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/D3mBPNjGNAQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial;\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/D3mBPNjGNAQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I found the music on a creative commons royalty free site called <a title=\"Incompetech - Royalty Free Music\" href=\"  http:\/\/incompetech.com\/m\/c\/royalty-free\/index.html?feels%5B%5D=Epic\" target=\"_blank\">incompetech<\/a>.\u00a0 Creative commons licenses seem to be a wondrous thing that I&#8217;m going to have to learn more about, because it strikes me as the most incredible thing the internet is able to provide right now.<\/p>\n<p>Things I have learnt today:\u00a0 Stop motion is hard and time consuming and a real art form that I would love to dive a bit further in to and Creative Commons is the future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while now, as you might be able to tell from some of the comments I made about online broadcast technology a couple of weeks ago, I&#8217;ve been dying to make a video series of some sort, because I can&#8217;t quite work out why I haven&#8217;t already. 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