New edition of the “New Zealand in a WRX” feature!
Or, in other words, another video =)
I’ve decided to put them on YouTube instead, apparently getting a Windows Media Player plugin is hard…
(You know who I’m talking about! 😛 :D)
So, without further ado:
And part II:
Yep, that’s the downside of YouTube, only 10 minutes tops…
I do wonder why though, I mean, if they give a 2 Gb limit and one can upload High Definition… Why do they care how long the video is?
It’s a mystery!
Well, what can I say, cold weather + sleep-induced weirdness (thanks to the World Cup showing at horribly early times here on TV) + computer = Weirdness.
What weirdness? Well, I did make these videos some time ago for the heck of it (in February, when I went all over the South Island) but decided to give them a tweak and put them here on the web log. Ever wanted to take a roadtrip through New Zealand? Now’s your chance!
I did speed it up a fair bit, I realized after a while that 2 hours of real time driving across anywhere isn’t exciting by any standards. I can’t say how much I sped it up though, some parts go faster than others – thank VirtualDub for how easy it makes all this editing. The video + music were put together with the Windows Live Movie Maker afterwards. Still trying to tweak the quality settings, unfortunately WLMM is not as good as the old Windows Movie Maker in that respect.
First instalment: Queenstown!
No, not a cooking post!
We are in the middle of winter here (shortest day of the year is 21st of June, since we’re upside down and all that). So when the forecast predicted a sunny day for the weekend, I seized the chance, jumped in my WRX, and headed somewhere fun.
I decided to drive East. Hawke’s Bay is usually the sunniest place in the North Island, and it didn’t disappoint!
Of course, it did take a while to get there. It may or may not have something to do with the tasty gravel roads one can travel to get there *cough*
Then again, the number of sealed backroads is surprisingly high, so it kind of alternates between gravel and non-gravel. Still, much fun was had, and I think I may need new brakes soon, I did give them a bit of a workout.
Pictures! I need a better solution to take pictures from the car…