This "week" we have a special treat for you and I've decided to create a separate page just for the videos. We were invited to the KTLA (TV5) studios in Hollywood to promote the Big Bear Lake Oktoberfest on their highly rated Morning News shows. I won’t bore you with the details but I didn’t attend this year while Sharon did and you’ll spot her in several of the clips. I did record the entire six (6) hours of shows on my home DVR to be sure I wouldn’t miss anything and have completed the conversions and uploaded them to YouTube and you can view them below.
I’m assuming many of you have probably already viewed some of the happenings on at least Big Bear Lake’s Oktoberfest Facebook page but I’m probably the last person in the world who is not a Facebook member so I’m not sure what you’ve seen. Therefore, I’m going to post videos I converted for every time they mentioned Big Bear, Polkas, Oktoberfest, etc. and you can choose which you want to view.
[I’ve provided this description before but I’m including it again here so I can find it next year when I need to remind myself of the process I use: For anyone interested in the details of the process in the Macintosh world, the show was aired in HD but my DVD Recorder is only SD. So, after recording the clips from the DVR to a DVD, I used a wonderful program named "VidConvert" to extract the video from the DVD, another program called "MPEG Streamclip" to convert that QuickTime video output to HD (1280x720) and then QuickTime to trim the clip and upload it to YouTube. Maybe now you'll understand why it takes a while to get it done.]
1) Here’s the first short tease of the day (0:10).
2) Next is the first of two longer segments with the anchors visiting the set (4:05).
3) Now we have the second short tease with the 11am anchors (0:23).
4) Here’s second longer segment which includes an interview with Hans (3:58).
5) And, lastly here's a short clip that marks the closing of the newscast and the end of our visit (0:21).