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Happy Christmas Cat

Maneki Neko

Knowing her love of all things feline, friends gave my wife a Maneki Neko, a Japanese "lucky cat", with a motorised beckoning arm.

Here it is dressed up for Christmas with a hat and Noel sign. "Noel" comes from the Latin natalis, celebrating the birth of Jesus the Messiah. Thank God we can trust in Him and not have to depend on "luck".

How to shrink a video, to save bandwidth and time

I took the video using a Samsung standard definition camcorder, and though only about 30 seconds long, it was over 20MBytes. Guess that is normal. However, not wanting to clutter my website with big files, I hunted out the following way to shrink it.

• installed Avidemux video editor on my Ubuntu PC
• opened the file in Avidemux
• set video out to MPEG-4 AVC
  • configure video to 2 pass video size, and size to 2 MB
• set Audio source from the main menu, to None for "Main Track" (to suppress audio, which was just background noise)
• set output format to MP4
• clicked Save and gave a new filename ending in ".mp4"
  That was it. Shrunk it down by 90%

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