Happy Birthday Spencer! (or, How to Make a Video eCard)


A custom ecard, because all the good ecard sites make you sign up for an account and/or pay. This is what you get when I come up with an idea on the day it needs to be completed; could be better. 

For anyone interested in how I did it, PowerPoint 2010 and above lets you export a show as a video. (I think there are sneaky ways to do this with earlier versions as well.) So I set up the slides, put in the animations, added audio, rehearsed/recorded the slideshow timing, and then exported as a video. Anyone who makes videos frequently is probably cringing (Sorry Spence) but it got the job done.

Audio is "An Awful Lot of Running" by Chameleon Circuit, used with permission of http://dftba.com. Check out their Music Video Program for more songs by more artists you can legally use in your own work.

And to my brother Spencer, Happy Birthday! You are my best friend and I miss you! Have a super fantastic day!

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