2 fail attempts
I really ought to kick myself in the butt right about now. I purposely stay in tonight to capture the fireworks and laser show from outside my window. Then I fall asleep. Who falls asleep 7 at night? By the time I wake up, it is 8:12 pm, which means I just missed the first show. I quickly get up to take the battery from the recharger and insert it into my Optio S4. While I am doing it, the second show comes on. Great, I am missing the beginning part again, just like yesterday, but at least I am capturing the heart of it.
When the show is over, it is only 8:19 pm. I forgot whether another one is supposed to come on at 8:30 pm, but I don't want to take any chances. Besides, this time I want to capture it on video. So I open iMovie 4 and choose iSight as the video source. Joy, they work together in version 4. I untie the FireWire cable so I can hang iSight outside the window. But there is no place to put it on the outside. Oh, well, then I have to hang my left hand out, too, and hold it steady.
Tonight is cold; in fact, the coldest so far this winter, only 9.4C. My left hand is freezing hanging outside, but from the iMovie video window, at least I am not shaking. It is 9:45 pm and no show has come back on. I am taking my poor hand and iSight back in. There is always tomorrow.
The best part of tonight is that my iSight actually captured a shot of the fireworks--however dark--while I was fiddling with my S4. You can see it on my iSight Hong Kong webcam. The colorful spots you see are actual fireworks blasting off into the air. I swear.