Previously, the aliens had opted not to visit Earth. That was just a very basic GIF animation, since I’m not sure that anyone else (besides me) can view a MOV file. And, thus far, I have completely failed at making this video in Flash and uploading it directly to my blog. One would think there would be a very simple way of implementing such a thing, but apparently not. And, the Flash experts seem to be tight-lipped about that sort of thing, hoping instead to sell you software or contract with them to do it for you.

Thus, I have had to resort to YouTube. Why not Revver, you ask, which I have encouraged people to use? I am saving my quality content for Revver, is the answer. I don’t want to build a profile over there of low quality, test stuff that no one will care about and, thus, (potentially) kill any potential audience I may have over there.

Anyway, so here it is:

Note that it’s pretty low quality and that’s because my original animation is a lower resolution than what YouTube uses, so it looks a little fuzzy blown up. Also, I do have a sound track that goes with it, but I didn’t include that in my upload because I wasn’t going to put together a string of credits for a 7 second test video.

I actually made this animation last Christmas-time, so that’s how long it’s been sitting on my hard drive. I made some attempts back then to get it into Flash, but with the same results as today’s attempts. Though, I did fare better today, as I did have player controls embedded this time around. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to get it to obey the command not to autoplay. Play=false is not doing the trick. And, besides that, I can’t get it in a format such that I can post it here in WordPress.

On top of that, I can’t seem to get the encoding right so that it displays nicely in a web browser without a lot of interlacing. And, no, the various interlacing options didn’t seem to do the trick. So, that’ll all be a lesson for a future date.

In the meantime, at least I’ve demonstrated (to myself, at least) that I can make a video and upload it to another site for viewing.

Oh, you wanted to know more about the video? Okay, it’s just a basic animation of what might be a spaceship’s outside view when passing around the Earth. They are probably going a little too fast, but I’m sure they have inertial dampeners. In this one, the spinning of the Earth is more noticeable than in the last one. Perhaps too fast, but this is a test video, so cut me some slack.

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