Testing video options

 Since loading videos directly into blogger posts isn't working for me any longer (I probably just forgot how to do it),

this is an experiment in using Youtube instead.

Just a crude (a videographer I'm not!) 30 second clip of the fountain and  bird-feeders just outside our back door to see if I can get this whole video through Youtube thing to work.

OK, now I've learned that if you film in landscape mode, Youtube shorts trims all the excess off the edges and only keeps the center, so trying to fill the screen with the area of interest while filming just ends up cutting off some important stuff, such as the feeders hanging off that first pole.

Of course I could just get my head out of my ass and film in portrait mode like this. (i.e. just turn the phone upright instead of horizontal dummy!)

Interesting observation:

I started that first video uploading (over the speed chalanged, one or two bar, 4g cell network which is all we have out here) to my just created specificly for this, bare minimum Youtube channel and walked away to do other things. By the time I got back to it, I was shocked to find it not only uploaded, but after 4 hours of sitting there in the chaotic and crouded anonomity of the Youtube-verse, it already had 19 views! What the hell! That's more than I get on most blog posts in a week!

So far this whole video thing seems to be working. Now I just need to publish the post and see if it still works  or if the "video not available" screen of doom comes up instead.