I shot a short video at a butterfly farm, in San Joaquin de Flores, Heredia, Costa Rica. You can watch it on You Tube, here!
The video needed some trimming, which I did with Avidemux. Not a problem. Saved it, played it, worked great. Except for the sound – the camera has a rather poor microphone, and it picked up conversations that were going on, in addition the fluttering and chirping of the birds outside.
Luckily, I was advised to use mencoder, by friends in South Florida: mencoder -ovc copy -nosound InputFileName -o OutputFileName
With a single line of text, a silent copy was made. A few minutes later, the whole world could share the video with me, courtesy of YouTube.