Don't forget, you can submit audio or video clues to the Letterpod, the letterboxing podcast, and we can post those clues for you. You can link to this page in your clue on AQ, or you can directly embed a audio or vidio player into the clue text on Letterboxing.org.

It's easy and it's free of course.

To learn more go to: http://letterpod.podbean.com/posting-clues/
or talk to jackbear.

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Don't forget, you can submit audio or video clues to the Letterpod, the letterboxing podcast, and we can post those clues for you. You can link to this page in your clue on AQ, or you can directly embed a audio or vidio player into the clue text on Letterboxing.org.

It's easy and it's free of course.

To learn more go to: http://letterpod.podbean.com/posting-clues/
or talk to jackbear.

Wow! I never knew this was an option. While some friends and I were trying to find a place to plant a box, we were discussing how to write the clues. One friend asked if you could include a picture. I told him I had a picture on a clue, just because.

But, what you're offering is so cool. Let me see if I have this right. You could video a spot and post it in the clues? Or, for the audio, you could have piano music and the clues would read that the box could be found at the store where you would buy this musical instrument? Is that how that would work.

This opens up so many options for clues. And, if someone didn't have sound, they could always email you to get the clue, correct?

Janet, Blooming Flowers (I can't wait to tell Wermbo about this)

I see videos at letterpod but not video clues. Are there any video clues? Do any video clues exist anywhere? (One particular letterboxer out there knows that I already know the answer but I'm fishing for more.)

I'm curious to know how a video clue should be done, or various ways it could be done for a traditional letterbox (not a virtual but a real box planted somewhere). If a video clue was just somebody narrating their directions while showing you what they were talking about, that would ruin the fun of the hunt for me. Are there any examples of video clues for traditional letterboxes?

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Are there any video clues?

I always chuckle at the thought of people trying to figure out how to follow video clues. You can't exactly print them out. So you carry a laptop into the woods with you? Yeah, a video IPod or whatever would be handy, but not all of us have those. My digital camera plays back video it shoots; maybe other videos can be loaded in it.

I suppose that the common practice would be to watch the video at home, then run out into the woods in hopes you'll remember it well enough to find the box. Might work if the box is close by. If you're on vacation and printing out clues for the next two weeks, might not work as well.

I suppose one could watch the video and then print out selected frames from it as reminders.

Now that I have a digital camera that will actually record videos, I think I'm gonna have to come up with some video clues. Then I'll have to figure out how to convert them to flash so they don't require 300 MB to upload.

What about using power point with pics? Then someone could print out the power point slides to take with them. Just an idea...

I suppose that the common practice would be to watch the video at home, then run out into the woods in hopes you'll remember it well enough to find the box

I am sorry but I had to laugh, hard! No way, could I, would I. If the clues were simple enough, or something I could gaunt down maybe . . . but there will be no running . . . . especially in the woods.

slick kitty

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What about using power point with pics?

That's not a video clue. It's a good plan, though. It could be done really slick, just like an actual PowerPoint presentation with graphs and charts and clipart and all.

Or, for the audio, you could have piano music and the clues would read that the box could be found at the store where you would buy this musical instrument?

Sure, but Jackbear has made them even more fun than that. Listen to his last clue:

Untouchable

You get to hear him singing in Pirates of the Genessee. :)

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Are there any video clues?

I had one but the box got washed away in high water a number of years ago. The video was a time compressed movie of a drive from Salem Oregon to a park in Hillsboro, Oregon. Once at the park, the walk to the hiding place was shown. It was short and direct enough that you didn't need to carry a laptop or whatever with you to find the box.