Brady’s Festive News on Saint Patrick’s Day 2020!

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit! (Gaeilge / Irish)
Latha Naomh Pàdraig sona dhut! (Gàidhlig na h-Alba / Scottish Gaelic)
Dydd Sant Padrig Hapus! (Cymraeg / Welsh)
Beatus S. Patricius: ‘Dies! (Latinus / Latin)
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! (English)
Because Saint Patrick’s Day is an Irish holiday, today I decided to do something somewhat different. Today, instead of making more progress on enhancing the quality of a commercial for Alexis Lichine Wine that aired here in America a half century ago, a project on which I had recently made some progress, I enhanced the quality of a commercial that aired in Ireland! And yes, just like before I had downloaded this commercial from ADLORD’s channel: https://youtu.be/WN52bUnFWZk. This particular commercial is for Aer Lingus, a national airline in Ireland, as described on Wikipedia.

This commercial aired in 1984 and displays evidence that it apparently came from a cassette tape, the home video norm of the 1980s and 1990s. For starters, I heard a hiss in the background, which can be characteristic of analog cassette tapes, especially in the beginning and end and in intervals between video files with audio, so I took it out, or at least lowered its audibility significantly, on Adobe Audition. Then I color-corrected the footage on Adobe Premiere Pro. I also tried to take off the grain lines and dots, as well as the kind of scratches characteristic of a videocassette, on Premiere Pro, but even on this final version they are still visible, which is why the title of this video does not say that I took the grain off. I even saw some moving lines on the bottom of the image, and even a few line flickers on the top of the image, so I cropped those edges off.

Finally, yes I did modify this video all today, March 17, which is Saint Patrick’s Day, 2020! And I did just make it available to view on the list of old videos of which I have enhanced the quality and on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MsosY3cn7Kw.

O, and by the way, my current Ethnicity Estimate on my AncestryDNA account shows that of my ancestors who immigrated to America, 24% came from Ireland and Scotland (the other 76% came from England, Wales, and Northwestern Europe). Yes, I really do have an account for AncestryDNA. I got one for my English class three years ago, and so did my classmates. When I got my results back, they showed that 28% of my ancestors were Irish. BUT, that was back then; my estimate did change within a year-and-a-half later.