• My Dad Has His Own YouTube Channel!

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  Aug 19

  When I got my father a Flip Ultra for Father’s Day, I didn’t realized that I had created a monster. He called me that day and told me to FedEX a tripod out to him the next day. He ran out to the field and began filming to put youtube clips about his wheat on his web site.

  Now, a little background about Dad, he told me just last year that when I first told him about putting up an Internet site for Reisig Seeds, he did it because “You were my daughter and you were so excited about it.” He didn’t actually think he’d get sales from it. Last year, he had to buy seed from other farmers to supply the demand he got just from his site. He is now a believer in the web. And really, as farmers go, Dad’s pretty hip.

  So for the past 3 weeks, I’ve been fighting video software to edit these clips into something presentable. I’ve learned a lot: how to work with audio, edit out wind noise, and when I couldn’t do that, add subtitles. I had to work with 3 pieces of software to do this, and each has its own little quirks. I had to figure out how to make the Reisig Seeds Logo into a “video logo” that moved. And, I had to search through hours of music to get a ‘theme song’ for Reisig Seeds. And then fight the software after it was all edited together to convert it into a YouTube friendly format that didn’t compress all my hard work into a blurry piece of crap.

  But after all of that, I think the results turned out pretty good, if I do say so myself.

  Anyway, if you want to see the official Reisig Seeds Youtube channel, here it is. I’ve got quite a few other clips to edit, so there will be more videos up as soon as I can get them.

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