Does Spielberg make movies using Windows software?

Yesterday, to celebrate the near 80-degree high temperature, I took a trip out to the Obed for a little bouldering and trail running. I haven't climbed a thing (other than one unfortunate table) since last summer when I took one $7 trip to the local (plastic) rock gym, so I took it easy and just did a few simple problems for about an hour until my hands were good and raw and I had trouble closing them. Then I changed clothes and, water bottle in one hand and camera in the other, I jogged out the 1.9 mile Point Trail to take in the views and play with my camera a little more.

I'm hoping to start posting the occasional video here, especially when I'm in Wyoming and there are scenes worth sharing, so to that end I recorded a whole bunch of crap yesterday and then spent the entire evening fooling around with Windows Movie Maker editing out the chaff and adding a soundtrack.

But it was all for nothing. Maybe I got ahead of myself, but I couldn't seem to get the whole thing in a format that I could get Blogger, YouTube, or Vimeo to recognize, so the video below is just an unedited clip. It's a shame, too, because I had it all synched up to where the Bob Mould song started right as my foot touched the rock and I had transitions and everything. I was actually amazed at how easy the whole process was, at least until I tried to actually do anything with it. If you want to come over to my apartment, I'd be happy to show you the finished product. Until then, I'll keep working with it, and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

UPDATE: Five days later, I figured the whole thing out, so now what you see below is the finished product.

Here's me getting my Narcissus on at the Lilly Boulders:


Lilly Boulders from dennyswaitress on Vimeo.

Sorry about that last thirty seconds or so. I need someone to man the camera. I think they call that a camera man. And I know what you're thinking- "Dude, you're thirty years old. Should you be wearing your hat backwards? Or using the word 'dude'?" I won't dignify the latter, but as for the former, all I have to say is this: It's like turning on a switch.

And if you didn't get that reference, shame on you. Over the Top is, hands down (pun!), the greatest arm wrestling movie ever made. Stallone at his Stalloniest.

Clear Creek from the Point, just before its confluence with the Obed River.