So it’s our 8th anniversary today. Wow, it seems like only 2,920 days ago we were getting married.
Anywho, I decided to surprise Mary by posting the elaborate video I made documenting our 5th anniversary, since nothing says “Happy 8th Anniversary” like a video of your first five years together…that you made three years ago…that she’s already seen umpteen thousand times.
Alas, the original was done in Flash, I had nuked the .fla file, and I only had a .swf file to work with—not good, as converting .swf “video” to something useable these days is a long-forgotten dark art, unless you are keen on exploring the wonderful world of grayware. After spending four hours researching my automated options, I decided to re-do the entire thing. From scratch. Ooof. Like six hours later, I’m done, with a lovely 100MB file. My good friends at Vimeo will surely appreciate my effort.
My wife, likely not.
