I went away yesterday and got on with some work – although it wasn’t the work I intended to do. I decided that rather than write off the staircase videos, that I should actually watch what I had collected.
Some of the videos had potential, so I sorted through them and started playing with them with my editing software. It’s a bit of a learning curve, as I’m not fully versed in the software, so I just keep clicking things, and finding out what different buttons do, whilst trying to remember how I have seen others who have edited films for me use the software before.
It’s been quite useful to have a play with the films, and although I’m nowhere near how I would want them to look, I now understand a little bit more about how I can make them work. The whole rendering process does get to me a bit – I keep making a change, and then have to wait while it renders to be able to see it. It probably doesn’t help that I’m working with lots of short videos at once.
Hopefully, the first draft edit appears below, I’m trying photobucket to share this video as my youtube uploader (aka my husband in the uk) is just about to catch a plane to Shanghai. (and I can’t access you tube or vimeo here).
Edit
turns out that I can’t embed the film here, so you’ll have to go and see it there: http://s785.beta.photobucket.com/user/claireweetman/media/verticaledit.mp4.html
