This Week in Figure Skating, August 22-28, 2011

Another one that wouldn’t convert initially, forcing me to go the long way round and cause sound problems. At least noone blocked it.

This Week in Figure Skating, August 15-21, 2011

Today was actually a pretty exciting day for real life related reasons, which also meant I began editing this video two hours late.  Which meant by the time I finished one of my news sections was obsolete!  But there’s a point, especially after I’ve edited together the final voice track, where I consider things locked already,  especially when it comes to official announcements very much made on Monday, outside the window of the week’s coverage.  Meanwhile, I actually tried to use a clip of Yu-Na SBS hadn’t blocked in the past, but either it wasn’t entire safe or they objected to another clip, so this one’s blocked in Korea and Japan again.

This Week in Figure Skating, August 8-14, 2011

One would think that after a hectic weekend of continually watching the Quebec Summer Skate because the Thornhill stream kept having problems, and a video chock full of too many headlines where I nonetheless couldn’t resist the golden opportunity to yell “MAY DAY! MAY DAY!”, it would have been events enough. And when the video wouldn’t save at first, that should have definitely been enough. But then when I saved it to a huge-ass DV-AVI file and attempted to convert a smaller one, it wouldn’t convert. I finally sweated out the ETA on the iPodME steadily going in the wrong direction, freeing up computer memory in a desperate attempt to get it finished before it stalled, and finally had a file YouTube would take. At least it didn’t get blocked anywhere(it’s embarrassing to report on All That Skate without any footage of Yu-Na, but whatever keeps you viewable), but I think the sound problems must be in the DV-AVI creation, and I ended up spending another half hour adding annotations where information had gotten too garbled, panicking when I thought they hadn’t saved, and finally realized I needed to click on the Publish button. So here it is, and I am going to bed.

This Week in Figure Skating, August 1-7, 2011

Once again I escape SBSi, but when All That Skate is next week, I shall have to attempt to be careful. Also apologies for my voice getting dicey at a couple of points; the sinuses were not good these weekend.

This Week in Figure Skating, July 25-31, 2011

This was an exhausting one, and I ended up leaving a lot out due to time constraints. But it looks like my theory that SBSi was claiming the copyright on Yu-Na content was wrong; not a wink of her in this video and it’s still blocked in both Japan and Korea.