Maneaba Song Dance Montage, Abemama Kiribati 1984

This was video taped in 1984 at night in a maneaba with gas lanterns for light, which was just not enough for the old technology. The original videotape is almost totally black but after converting to digital I was able to tease out a few moving white blotches. For the remake I have some new hardware (Panasonic AG1980 tape deck and Canapus ADVC300 converter) then with a little tweaking in PhotoShop Extended I was able to get enough detail so the dance can be seen

Category:

Music

Tags:

• dance
• Abemama
• Kiribati
• Tarawa
• Micronesia
• pacific island travel
• maneaba
• mwaneaba
• markimatang

[zl1bub]

what village is this please.I'm from Abemama

[markimatang]

@zl1bub It’s been 27 years. I think Kariatebike but maybe Tebontebike, somewhere around there.

[middy444]

How did you get the annotations with round edges? Please, I am desperate to know!

[markimatang]

@middy444 Well, these are just spotlight annotations that you add anywhere in the window. I used PhotoShop extended to create the thumbnail videos in video and then just drug the spotlight annotation around each. You can probably do a video in video in most video editors as well.

[middy444]

@markimatang you know, I realised the spotlight thing soon after posting this comment LOL. Thanks though, it's much appreciated. Also, do you know of any free video editing software that I can put the video in my video, like you did in Photoshop. Thanks for replying.

[markimatang]

@middy444 Well, I’m a Mac user so iMovie comes with the Mac (if you can call that free) and it supports what it calls Picture in Picture. I’ve never used it so I don’t know if you could do it twice or more but you could always render the PiP and then add another PiP to that. I can’t imagine Billie letting Stevie get ahead so it must be available in Movie Maker as well.

[kalanimose]

lovely!!! love from wallis and futuna

[middy444]

@markimatang thanks for you help hun

[markimatang]

@sytube4 All the videos were converted with the TBC set to off so I really don't know. It might have been useful on "Sketches of Nan Madol 1984" at about 1:42 but the jitter was short so i just left it alone.

[sytube4]

How's the TBC in this VCR?