Count with Play-Doh Eggs was a big departure from our previous videos. The original idea was to fill up a bunch of balloons with confetti and pop them to reveal numbers, this idea was aborted (we still have the filled balloons in a closet waiting for use), in favor of play-doh surprise eggs. Each surprise egg has a play-doh number on it and is filled with M&M's and a surprise toy. The play-doh was very hard to work with and the eggs were particularly cheap so they refused to stay closed while applying the play-doh. The result was a bunch of lumpy egg-ish looking eggs that were somewhat passable. We recorded Genevieve counting from 1 to 10, but she was so adamant against counting at the time that they only good recording we got was while she was in the bath (causing watery background noises). Filming the video was very straightforward once the prep-work had been done (we didn't even need to make the cats go in the basement like we normally do, since the audio wasn't critical and could be redone if necessary). I had recently upgraded my editing software from Camtasia to Lightworks, and I was very excited to use the new software. Camtasia had gotten so frustrating to use as an editing software, because after each edit you make, it saves the previous version in the background in case you need to undo the edit. Now imagine having to do dozens of edits, each one slowing your computer down more and more until it is a lurchy piece of junk... The only solution was to do a few edits, save it, completely close camtasia, open it back, do a few more edits, and repeat the process. Also, now that our videos were higher definition, Camtasia would frequently crash during the rendering process if the video was longer than 7 or 8 minutes. Lightworks solved all of these issues and gave me a ton of new possibilities with editing, but the learning curve on the program is very steep. I got a little carried away in this video with some of Lightworks' effects, and applied an effect that sharped the image in a way that made the final video look a little jagged. The video turned out surprisingly well, and I only regret using the M&M's as they only complicated things, and added very little to the actual content of the video as I did not record in such a way that utilized them to their maximum. This was our first video to get 1,000 views.