Primordial Ooze

A few weeks ago, I took this footage of a spider nest that had recently hatched. Pretty neat stuff. There are HUNDREDS of them!

I set the video to some ominous music from the Diablo 2 PC game. Let’s hope their lawyers don’t come after me.

Making the video was a bit challenging with my current toolset. I wanted to keep the resulting video cross-platform so I did my best to use QuickTime as my output media format. However, the QuickTime encoder that I was using didn’t seem to let me export the video at full 720x480 resolution. I wanted that resolution since there is a lot of detail to these little spiders and I wanted to capture as much of it as I could while still allowing the video to be streamed… if not simply downloaded and played back.

I played around with the settings for a while and was able to coax QuickTime into producing the format I was looking for. It’s a bit of a large file (43MB) but that was the only way to capture the detail. Sorry, no streaming.

Watch the Video (No spiders were harmed in the shooting of this video.)

Enjoy.