a sincere effort

I teach Gospel Doctrine for  Sunday School in our ward and have been asked to do up to a 20 min virtual video accessible through YouTube for each of my lessons.

This has been a trial for me. For one, I do not like to talk into a video for even a minute. It is like talking to myself in a mirror. Talk about a inner self critic in overdrive! Each lesson results in a laborious song and dance with multiple rehearsals before uploading what finally evolves into a video lesson on the ward Facebook page. Oddly enough I don't mind writing into the big space for anyone who might want to read my thoughts or ramblings but a video is so very intimidating!!

So, brilliant me decided to do a PowerPoint on video with a voice recording. I used You Tube to instruct me how it is done, and after much trial and error I completed the PowerPoint and saved it.  It has been a ridiculously long and unsuccessful process trying to save it to a recognizable mp4 file that can upload to You Tube. I even downloaded a free video editing app to help convert the file. That proved unproductive.

Frustrated, my husband checked in on my progress in unmeasured spurts "Is it done yet?" Throughout the day I grew infinitely more stubborn determined that this PowerPoint was the way to teach the lesson for this week. Finally, I called my sister Samantha,  my tech lifeline, and walked it through with her. It took 3+ more hours to "create video" and 60 minutes later my computer was still working on "saving" the file.

Ultimately, I called it a day and went to bed determined to sleep a bit while waiting for the file export and upload. Was it worth the effort? Stay tuned. It might eventually be available for view, perhaps by tomorrow's dinner?