The video Project

Clearly my Video project isn't done. I've been running into a lot of problems with it. First of all, my interviewee wasn't available until the friday and saturday of this weekend, so I definately wasn't able to get it posted by 5pm on Friday.

Secondly, the worker in the equipment studio never gave me a mic cord, which I know is my fault for not checking before I left. I tried to use my own mic cord at home that had an adapter. Aparently it did not like it because everytime I recorded something the playback was just solid static. So I had to improvise and do it without an external mic.

And THEN! I uploaded everything to my computer and was going to use Windows Movie Maker. Well when checking which files I wanted to upload, there was no problem. The clips were playing fine. But when I imported them to Windows Movie Maker, and tried to drag them down to the timeline, aparently Windows Movie Maker only thought the clips were audio files. So on my computer, I could not edit these at all!

So needless to say they will definately NOT be done for class today. I'm hoping to get down to the editing rooms tomorrow and try using Final Cut Pro for these. And hopefully by wednesday or so I will be able to have a finished product. And probably not one that I would have been so proud for.

What can I do? The mysteries of technology! Sometimes it just doesn't work!

Well finally I was able to get my videos to appear. Apparently I either needed to use a Mac or just needed to use their software. So instead of using Final Cut Pro I decided to use iMovie. I've used final cut many times but wanted to try something new, so I tried iMovie. And boy let me tell you, it was MUCH easier than final cut. I still think my product came out decent. I would have liked to use a little bit more high end camera for it, but with the equipment and the fact that I didn't even have a mic chord to use, I still think it came out fine.

Thanks to my old roomate Sammie for talking to me about being a Photography Major at Buffalo State. She was really patient throughout the whole thing, thank god. I'm glad that she's always available when I need her for projects, and I'm usually the source for her photo projects as well!

Editing for me was not hard. I planned the video segments so I already knew what was going to be plugged in where, so it was only a matter of rearranging and trimming down some of the clips and i was set. I put in some fade to black transitions just because I've never been a fan of a simple cut. I embedding much of my b-roll as the actual footage and used the audio from my interview to underlay the b-roll. My total video was just over 3 minutes long, which is good because it fits in the time frame that we were supposed to fill, but it also is short enough that it will hold peoples attention.

I uploaded my video on Blip and Youtube. I was going to do Vimeo, but I didn't export the video the right way the first time, and accidentally uploaded it to Vimeo, and it wouldn't let me upload another video today because I didn't pay to use their site, so by default I had to use Youtube and Blip, which I don't mind because I was going to use Youtube anyways.

Uploading for me on Blip was not hard at all. I think it was the easiest. As I am writing this I am impatiently waiting for the video to upload on Youtube. Blip took about 5 minutes to upload. Youtube has already taken 15 and it's only 13% done right now. I hope I am going to be able to upload it because I think there is a class in here in like 30 minutes, not to mention that I have class too, so I might have to come in later and spend an hour or so to get the rest of it to upload. So annoying.

This is my video from Blip


I will edit this post later when the Youtube video finally loads!




So I think that my YouTube video is correctly done, but my Blip one might not have been done right because it takes a very long time to load to view.