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How a Quick Tweet Earned Me Some New Boardies

By Des Walsh
Thursday, March 17th, 2011

This is kind of a fun post, with a hopefully useful angle in terms of using Twitter for business.

In the video here I explain how:

  • last week, as the annual Quiksilver Pro surfing championships were drawing to a close at nearby Snapper Rocks, I tweeted that I was trying to decide whether to go to the beach or keep working
  • the Quiksilver Pro folks picked up on that and told me I’d won a pair of the leading brand Diamond Dobby board shorts.

Tweet about going to watch Quiksilver Pro finals

Des Walsh in new Diamond Dobby board shorts, Rainbow BayNow I’m trying to think up ways others of us could use the power of Twitter to acknowledge and reward people who give our brand some coverage – especially if our business is more on the professional services side and we don’t have boardies or other such tangible goodies to hand out.

Maybe we should get some tangible goodies to do the rewarding. Although I do wonder whether the planet needs more notepads and ball point pens with various firms’ logos.

Ideas? Something you have done in this line and it worked, that you’d care to share?

Categories : Social Media
Tags : board shorts, boardies, Diamond Dobby, Quiksilver Pro, rewards, Social Media, Twitter

Convert a Video File for Editing and Uploading

By Des Walsh
Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Talk about starting the week with a challenge! I hope by sharing how I spent a large slab of Monday morning dealing with the mysteries of video file formats and video editing I can help someone who might be facing similar challenges.

Probably nothing to see here for video editing experts.

The background is that yesterday I took a video of champion surfer Taj Burrow, competing in the Quiksilver Pro championships at nearby Snapper Rocks. I used a Samsung Digimax L85 digital camera, which saved the file in .avi format.

This morning, wanting to do a little editing, basically just trimming a bit off the end of the clip, I tried using Windows Movie Maker, Sony Vegas 7.0 and even, as supplied with the camera, Samsung’s Digimax Master. No success with any of these. I could run the video but not edit it.

A Google search turned up a neat online tool, MediaConverter.

This uses a simple five step process.

  1. file selection
  2. new file type
  3. additional options
  4. conversion
  5. download

Helpfully, there are three options for the file selection:

  • Convert a video directly from various portals
  • Convert a video or music by url (http, ftp, mms, mmst, mmsh and rtsp)
  • Upload a video, audio or office file from your local hard disk

I converted the .avi file to Windows Media Format (.wmf) and was able then to edit it with Sony Vegas 7.0.

I saved the edited file as a Sony Vegas file (.veg) and then went to render the file for publishing. Seeing a huge array of file format options, I did an online search to discover what would be the most suitable format for uploading to YouTube.

I found the amusing video below:


Taking the advice offered in the video, I then chose for my surfing video the option Sony AVC/AAC(.mp4), which is identified as having the following properties:

Audio: 128 Kbps, 48,000 Hz, AAC.
Video: 512 Kbps, 29.970 fps, 320×240

Close enough to the specifications in the instructional video.

My first surfing video has now been completed and uploaded.

Categories : General, Resources, Video
Tags : media converter, Quiksilver Pro, surfing, Taj Burrow, Video, video file conversion
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