My First Video Project!
by Mike Pilinski on Dec.05, 2009, under Videos
Hey, I’m finally moving into the scary brave new world of video! I’ve been playing around with this new technology a little bit… always late and behind the curve as usual. So I made up a little 3 minute test vid — it’s just a small article about being friends with women that I basically just read the voiceover to while a series of still photos drift along through the screen. I just wanted to see how the software worked and I ended up having some fun with the pan and zoom feature. This gives apparent motion to a still (boring) image and makes it look more professional. (I used to be a photolab tech and still enjoy working with images.)
Anyway, here’s the video:
Kind of silly I guess in terms of content, but for just screwing around I’m pretty proud of it!
It actually took some doing to figure out how best to make those titles — the text editor is a bit clunky — but I got a usable result that you can at least read. You’ve really got to have patience putting these things together and be willing to wait for the software to render as it goes along. If you try to stack up too many tasks the computer just locks up and forget it. You’re really running the ol CPU at full throttle. Fun stuff. More to come soon…
Comments, comments please!!!…
(If the video doesn’t display or play correctly, you can watch it directly from YouTube here)




