{"id":5341,"date":"2015-02-20T23:38:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T05:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/?p=5341"},"modified":"2015-11-19T23:28:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T05:28:55","slug":"sydney-turns-5-8-weeks-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/20\/sydney-turns-5-8-weeks-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Turns 5&#8230; 8 Weeks Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MoviePosterTemplate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5342\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/20\/sydney-turns-5-8-weeks-ago\/moviepostertemplate\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MoviePosterTemplate.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"675,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MoviePosterTemplate\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MoviePosterTemplate-405x600.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MoviePosterTemplate.jpg\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-5342 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MoviePosterTemplate-405x600.jpg\" alt=\"MoviePosterTemplate\" width=\"405\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MoviePosterTemplate-405x600.jpg 405w, https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MoviePosterTemplate.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are so many things I was better at before having kids. One of them was finishing what I started on-time.<\/p>\n<p>I started editing this video for Sydney the day after her birthday, back in late November (her Birthday was Thanksgiving Day this year). But OMG I thought I would never finish.<\/p>\n<p>First, I decided to force myself to edit it using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/final-cut-pro\/\" target=\"_blank\">FCPx<\/a>, because I&#8217;ve been curious about the recent features they&#8217;ve added. That alone added a lot of time to the process. Not because FCPx is bad&#8230; it&#8217;s actually perfect for these types of videos. But because I was learning along the way. At times I would hit a wall on something and have to stop to watch a tutorial on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynda.com\/Final-Cut-Pro-training-tutorials\/201-0.html?category=x_960\" target=\"_blank\">Lynda.com<\/a> about the thing or two I was having issues with.<\/p>\n<p>There was the lack of\u00a0a lot of free time, especially around the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>And, I kept raising the bar on what I planned on doing. It went from a simple cuts only stringer of the best of what I shot to a multi-segment music video of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>In the end I was pretty happy with it, but if I had not already spent so much time on it I would spend another few hours cleaning it up more. But, sometimes you have to just draw the line and call it DONE!<\/p>\n<p>So here it is, \u00a0Syndey&#8217;s 5th Birthday celebration video. It had its family premiere night tonight and the kids all had some good belly laughs.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sydney_5th_FullVideo_v2_ATV_10k.m4v\">Download Video<\/a> (H.264\/ATV Friendly)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many things I was better at before having kids. One of them was finishing what I started on-time. I started editing this video for Sydney the day after her birthday, back in late November (her Birthday was Thanksgiving Day this year). But OMG I thought I would never finish. First, I decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":5344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,4,5],"tags":[121,170,7],"class_list":["post-5341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","category-text","category-video","tag-birthday","tag-sydney","tag-video-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/poster.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-1o9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3914,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/26\/thanksgiving-skating-party\/","url_meta":{"origin":5341,"position":0},"title":"Thanksgiving Roller Skating Party in Michigan","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"November 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I want to give a shout out to my favorite Aunt Shirley, Shirley Magdan for such a awesome time today. 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