So, I promised a look at the latest beating-things-with-rocks project. Voilà tout.
This took me a heck of a lot of time, considerable beating things with rocks, and of course I’m not completely happy with it—but for a first try at video making, it’s not half bad.
Next time, I’ll turn up the gain on the video-camera microphone, figure out why the hell Keynote adds about three seconds of extra time before some slide transitions but not others and make it stop, and figure out why on earth iMovie made my poor little video pixellate at one-second intervals.
If you’re going to do this: Fanfic and vidding have the concept of a “beta,” somebody who looks at what you’ve done and points out the stupid bits so you can fix them before they’re inflicted on the world. YOU WANT ONE. I showed my Twitter friends a preview yesterday. I had managed to fsck up the affiliation of one of my interviewees. One of my Twitter friends noted it, and I was able to fix it and redo the vid before I made a complete jackass of myself. Major thanks to her, and she knows who she is.
