This is my experience in Beijing, China in the Summer of 2009.
If you came to this webpage first, it's better if you
start from the beginning of the story.
04/07/24 Update: I just discovered my flash videos for the China 2009 website are no longer playing.
No one told me about this.
I don't know how long they were down but it had to be within the last 4 years.
Anyway, I converted the video format from Flash (FLV) to MP4 to be more compatible
with the current browsers and found another player
so this video is up and running again!
I finally got around to editing the solar eclipse video. Check it out below!
At Huangshan.
This 2 minute video was takened in front of the Huangshan International Hotel in Huangshan, China on
July 22, 2009 around 9:32am.
I was trying to say that the eclipse was "fully developed" but you couldn't see it
because of the clouds covering it. Then I panned around to show how dark it was even though
it was 9:32 in the morning. Finally, the clouds had cleared and you can still see the eclipse to totality.
There was a Chinese couple standing next to me talking loudly at each other.
My camcorder was a Samsung SC-MX-10 with a 34X zoom. It generates an AVI file which isn't web friendly.
So I converted the AVI to Flash (FLV) so I could embed it into HTML.
The problem is the FLV video
lost resolution and doesn't look as good.
I changed the codec to H.264. The resolution is much better now!