Sorry I have been ignoring you blog, school is really getting in the way of my hobbies. Recently though, I had the chance to create a video for my educational psychology course! I love story boarding, filming and editing. It truly is a passion of mine and I take every opportunity I can to do it. I had a great script and shot order lined up but I ran into some pretty heavy obstacles.
The main issue was my computer. I thought my desktop was pretty good considering I got 4gb of ram and a single 3.2Gh processor but evidently that isn't enough to prevent plagues of video lag. It would honestly take me 3 minutes to jump between takes and splitting a scene was a nightmare. Trying to do anything fancy, like captions, music or transitions KILLED my performance. At one point I had to start from scratch because the program I was using corrupted my entire film >:(
Another large issue was the editing software I was using. My only option was windows live movie maker 2011. I have used movie maker in the past and its enough to make an ok film but the 2011 version is GARBAGE!! They took away many key audio features, like narration, and made my editing process a night terror.
Long story short, my film fell far below to where I wanted it to be. I have to turn in what I could muster but my 4 hours of shooting, 3 hours of sound editing and probably 6-8 hours of editing were pretty much for nothing.
Looking back on this, I have decided to teach myself to edit using a new program. I did some digging on free software out there and here are some links to suggested programs.
SAVEDELETE.COM
DOWNLOAD.COM
SOURCEFORGE.NET
If you are interested in reading my script, I will include a google doc link to public space for your viewing pleasure.
KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GETTING YOURSELF INTO BEFORE ATTEMPTING A PROJECT LIKE THIS!!!! If I could do it over again, I would have used my University's editing machines in the library and forced someone to teach me how to use them.
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Hey, Kyle,
ReplyDeleteToo bad about your video-making night terror experience >;( BUT I just read your script, and LOVED it. Awesome work, dude! I sense significant potential talent for creating engaging, humorous, effective multimedia vehicles for teaching/ learning. [Your spelling skills are another thing entirely :) but luckily, we're in the spellcheck age.] The script worked (i.e., I learned the content about learning and teaching that you wanted to convey) despite the fact that I had to visualize the movie instead of getting to sit back and watch it. Now that's an effective screenplay!