\nFor Christmas my son James got a camera meant to film action in first-person, the way so many parkour YouTubers do. We read its manual, bought the microSD card, etc, to get it ready. Then came the time for that first test: would it film action that could be played back from a media player?\n<\/p>\n
\nJames took some footage, then we loaded it on a computer and opened it with the media player. The frame transition was choppy, and painfully slow.\n<\/p>\n
\nJames asked if we could try it on a newer computer we have. We did so, and the clip did play like you’d hope. “I guess it’s the computer,” James commented: “the camera does work.”\n<\/p>\n
\n“True,” I said, “but the old computer plays YouTube videos, no problem. Why does it have trouble with video from the camera?”\n<\/p>\n
\n“That’s because it hasn’t been rendered,” he commented. “A rendering program changes the footage so it plays properly.”\n<\/p>\n
\nI didn’t know about rendering; I’ve no training in video production. However, my kids do, and we have Movie Maker installed on the old computer (that wouldn’t play James’s camera footage very well).\n<\/p>\n
I wondered: would rendering that footage make it playable on the old computer?\n<\/p>\n
DarkShak<\/a>, on YouTube, explains how to accomplish rendering, as far as I understand. I followed his instructions, then played the result on the media player: it plays perfectly, just like you’d expect on YouTube.\n<\/p>\nJack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Self-tutoring about video production: the tutor shares some primary knowledge he just learned. For Christmas my son James got a camera meant to film action in first-person, the way so many parkour YouTubers do. We read its manual, bought the …<\/p>\n