I went into Portland this weekend just to stretch my legs and try out a ‘test’ video for YouTube. My goals were simple really– Shoot a film with my Cannon SX10 IS Point and Shoot Camera, Edit it in Linux (using Kdenlive), and then upload it..

I think it worked out ok.. but I struggled last night trying to figure out which encoding to use that would keep it under 1gb, but still be decent quality.. I rolled with Mpeg-4 @ (like) 2k.

Overall I actually had fun doing this! I really should make more vids..