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Our twins' Video Clips
This page links to the video clips of our twins. One group of clips are in Quick Time movie format, the other group are in MPEG format.
Quicktime clips
The following clips are in Quick Time format. You can download a plug-in for your browser via the links below.
Requires QuickTime.My own favorite is the "Drawer Dance". These video files are pretty big. I understand that it takes forever to download if you have a slow connection. These files are already compressed. However, due to the shaking of the camera, the images shook too much to allow a good compression ratio. For example, the "Red Berets" footage is still quite large at 3.2 Mbytes despite using a high compression setting that sacrificed image quality for the file size. You would need a lot of patience to download these files.
click to run Size Duration Date Age Description Drawer Dance
2.4 M 40 sec Nov 25, 1998 15m+19d Jasmine handled a table drawer for the first time. She danced with joy to celebrate her accomplishment. Sledding
(audio track removed)1.2 M 10 sec Nov 30, 1998 15m+24d The twins sledded downhill with daddy.
The videotape was fine, however, probably due to the niveous background, the video capture card on my computer did a terrible job synchronizing the video signal, so the picture flickers a lot. I couldn't find a way to fix it. I disabled the audio track because it was mostly noise from the wind.
See corresponding journal entry.Pushed Around
1.2 M 10 sec Dec 25, 1998 16m+19d Jasmine pushed Joanne around the room.
See corresponding journal entry.Red Berets
3.5 M 43 sec Jan 10, 1999 17m+4d The twins tried on their new berets. They checked out their appearance in the mirror. Production details:
The footages were shot on a SONY Hi8 Camcorder. The lighting were less than ideal in most cases. I forgot to turn on the white balance option to compensate for the yellow tint of the light bulbs, so the images are kind of dark and yellowish.
The video were then played back into the S-Video and Audio jacks on a 5 year old Power Macintosh 7100AV. The 7100 is equipped with a NewTechnologies 240 MHz G3 processor upgrade card. The footages were then recorded/digitized by Apple's video player program. The captured movie files were then converted into Quicktime movies by Apple's QuickTime 3.0 Pro.
MPEG clips
The following clips are in mpg format, most web browsers with the proper plugins should be able to play them. It had been verified that Microsoft's Media player and Apple's Quicktime player both play these clips with no problem.
click to run Size Duration Date Age Description Birthday Song, Joanne
528 K 23 sec Aug 6, 2001 4y Joanne sang the birthday song to herself. Birthday Song, Jasmine
496 K 22 sec Aug 6, 2001 4y Jasmine sang the birthday song to herself. Birthday Song, twins
528 K 23 sec Aug 6, 2001 4y Twins sang the birthday song to themselves. But ended up singing happy birthday to daddy instead. Twinkle Little Stars, Jasmine
768 K 34 sec Aug 6, 2001 4y Jasmine sang twinkle twinkle little stars. Alphabet Song, Joanne
720 K 32 sec Aug 6, 2001 4y Joanne sang the ABC. Alphabet Song, Jasmine
720 K 32 sec Aug 10, 2001 4y+4d Jasmine sang the ABC. Happy birthday, Joanne
527 K 23 sec Aug 10, 2001 4y+4d Joanne sang happy birthday again. Happy birthday, Jasmine
431 K 19 sec Aug 10, 2001 4y+4d Jasmine sang happy birthday. The Challenger Song, Joanne
399 K 18 sec Aug 10, 2001 4y+4d Joanne sang their school song. jump like cracy, Jasmine
535 K 24 sec Aug 10, 2001 4y+4d Jasmine jumped around. jump like cracy, Joanne
512 K 22 sec Aug 10, 2001 4y+4d Joanne wanted to mimic Jasmine. spin, Jasmine
127 K 5 sec Aug 10, 2001 4y+4d Jasmine spinned her ballet move? twins in car
1.3 M 59 sec Aug 12, 2001 4y+6d When we passed Chuck E. Cheese restaurant on our way to Grandma Ling's, mommy asked the twins to tell daddy what was in the restaurant. The twins said a lot about a broken airplane in there. Eh!
168 K 7 sec Aug 13, 2001 4y+7d The twins yelled nonsense together. Eh!
184 K 8 sec Aug 13, 2001 4y+7d Joanne wanted to yell alone. BaBaBa
184 K 8 sec Aug 13, 2001 4y+7d Jasmine yelled some more nonsense. DaDaDa
175 K 8 sec Aug 13, 2001 4y+7d Joanne hesitated on what nonsense to say. But it must be different from Jasmine's. DuDuDu
208 K 9 sec Aug 13, 2001 4y+7d Joanne yelled nonsense of her choice. Birthday cards
223 K 10 sec Aug 13, 2001 4y+7d Twins showed off their birthday cards. Gifts Wrap
1.3 M 59 sec Aug 13, 2001 4y+7d Joanne wrapped a gift for Jasmine. Notice she mimicked mommy by putting the adhensive tape on her arm first. Jasmine was playing next to the camera and made most of the noise in the clip. Gifts giving
128 K 5 sec Aug 13, 2001 4y+7d Joanne gave the gift to Jasmine. Gifts
168 K 7 sec Aug 13, 2001 4y+7d The twins have fun passing the gift back and forth. Production details:
The footages were shot on a SONY DSC-S70 using its movie mode. The lighting were less than ideal in all cases. The digital still camera records the video in MPEG format. The files were transferred to an iMac via a USB connection. No touchup nor editing was done on the footages.
More recent Quicktime clips
The following clips are in Quick Time format. You can download a plug-in for your browser via the links below.
Requires QuickTime.Snow trip the the High Sierra in Jan 2002.
click to run Size Duration Date Age Description Snow Trip
2.2 M 92 sec Jan 5, 2002 52m+30d The twins were helping mommy collect the snow chunks. See corresponding journal entry. Snow Fortress
760K 34 sec Jan 5, 2002 52m+30d The twins help mommy building a snow fortress.
Ducked for the camera
346K 21 sec Jan 5, 2002 52m+30d Joanne hide behind the snow fortress.
Snow Mickey Mouse
740K 40 sec Jan 5, 2002 52m+30d The twins took pictures with the snowman we built.
Game of UNO
click to run Size Duration Date Age Description Victory dance
212K 11 sec Jan 10, 2002 53m+4d The twins dance for victory after an UNO game. See corresponding journal entry. Joanne won an UNO game
944K 65 sec Jan 10, 2002 53m+4d Jasmine caught daddy for not saying UNO at the end of the game. Joanne won the game. Jasmine won an UNO game
784K 52 sec Jan 10, 2002 53m+4d When daddy played a wildcard, Jasmine demanded the choice of color so that she could win the game. JR's birtday party
click to run Size Duration Date Age Description Slide
1.06M 17 sec Jan 13, 2002 53m+7d The twins at JR's sixth birthday party See corresponding journal entry. Bubble
1.5M 36 sec Jan 13, 2002 53m+7d Jasmine playing with bubbles. Lindsay wildlife museum
click to run Size Duration Date Age Description Guinea Pig
509K 15 sec Jan 13, 2002 53m+7d The twins patted a Guinea Pig at the Lindsay Museum. See corresponding journal entry. Swing
?K ? sec Jan 13, 2002 53m+7d Twins played in a Park outside the Lindsay museum. Production details:
The footages were shot on a SONY Hi8 Camcorder or a SONY DCR-PC100 digital camcorder.
The snow trip video were played back from the Hi8 into the digital camcorder in miniDV tape. The other video footages were recorded directly on the digital camcorder. In all cases, the footages were transferred to an iMac via the iLink/DV connection. The movie files were then imported to iMovie 2.0 for editing and conversion into web compatible format.
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