High definition footage of Thai New Year water festival the Songkran madness 2008 with huge water splash. It is an annual event and local carnival for fun and play held in Chiang Mai Thailand in mid April. The original footage has been recorded with Sony HDR-SR7E digital video camcorder in M2TS format with a video size of 1920 X 1080 pixels. I used a Sony Vegas Pro version 8.0 and converted it into editable M2V format. To render the footage I used a blu-ray template 1920×1080-60i, 25 Mbps video stream. Once converted into M2V file format I used Adobe Premiere Pro CS for easy and final video editing. To render the footage in Adobe Premiere I used export function and Adobe Media Encoder. I selected a preset of HDTV 1080i 29.97 high quality and the frame size of 1920X1080 pixels. To render a video of 09:00 minutes it took over 3 long hours. It was all well worth it as the final results were simply amazing. The picture quality is absolutely fantastic on my 40″ Sony Bravia and 5.1 audio is close to perfect. The Thai New Year (in Thai Songkran from Sanskrit sankrānti “astrological passage”) is celebrated every year on 13 April to 15 April. It coincides with the New Year of many other calendars in South and Southeast Asia. The date of the festival was originally set by astrological calculation, but it is now fixed. If these days fall on a weekend, the missed days off are taken on the weekdays immediately following. Songkran falls in the hottest time of the year in Thailand, at …

A video of Tam Pang Beach Resort on the Island of Koh sichang in Thailand. This is the only beach on the Island and rooms rent for 550 Baht, a person needs to rent a motorcycle or be Resort California stranded. (Hotel California) This is four hours travel by bus from Bangkok and nice swimming. This is a Thai style resort beach and opposite from the bar girls style of Phuket, Pattaya or Samui, more for relaxation, Kayak, snorkeling. Not really a resort, more of hotel on beach.

Jeremy, baby Oliver, Mary and I are having a fun time at Thai temple called Wat Sacramento Buddhavanaram for Thai New Year’s Day, April 13th 2008.

It pissed down all evening until midnight. No candles were alight on the beach as like previous years just a few people lighting lanterns.