Hello again to all fellow NPN members. I have not been asleep. I have been off in the woods. I finished my new video and have posted it on youtube. Again it is a mixture of Photo's and video from Sony A77, A99, and the new CX900 (impressive camcorder if I do say so myself).
Please check out the link and don't forget you can watch in HD.
Feedback comments likes and shares all appreciated.
Thanks.
Gary, I can tell you had fun putting this together. I think editing video is much more fun than editing photos... there are more opportunities to get creative. Your use of slow motion in certain instances worked quite well, and you captured some cool behavior among some of the bugs in particular.
Since you asked for feedback, I will give one piece of advice (as a fellow casual video shooter who likes making videos for fun): Edit tighter. It took a while for me to learn this, but it really does help to trim clips and the overall length of my videos down. Viewers can often get a sense of what's going on in 2-3 second bites. Unless you're depicting an extended action sequence, there usually isn't a need to linger on a scene for 10-20 seconds. A tadpole that's just sitting there doesn't need to be on screen for even 5 seconds (especially when spliced with other tadpole clips), and the danging caterpillar (which was cool!) could've been cut from 20 down to 5 seconds...
I've found that you're much more likely to keep viewers' attention this way. Let their eyes rest too long and they may get bored. Something that's tied to this editing process which you may find kinda fun is to pick out some different music and edit the video alongside that. The different breaks and changes in a particular song often work as nice cues for your visual cuts. Every couple bars of a song usually signal a video transition for me. One of the funnest parts of the editing process for me is finding a good piece of music to set it and edit my clips to. Of course, it's difficult to find music that can be used legally or licensed cheaply, but it is possible.
Anyway, sorry if that's not the type of feedback you wanted, but it looks like you're a kindred spirit when it comes to video, so I thought I'd share my experience.
Hey Max. Thanks for the notes. I agree with everything you said. Shorter is better. I think sometimes between other jobs and kids you sit down to edit something and it doesn't get the full attention it should. A good lesson I need to start following is to do an edit and then wait a week and go back to the video and watch it again before rendering a final cut. Upon review I often find things I say what was I thinking, should have cut that down etc....
Thanks for watching.
Hey Gary, sorry im late to the show but I just stumbled on this topic. Ive been obsessed with (music) videos this past year, so I definitely can relate, like Max. I agree with his assessment. I enjoyed watching the video. A lot of nice scenes, some fat to trim. The first caterpillar sequence was classic--if you can string together a few scenes like that you will really have something special.
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3 repliesPlease check out the link and don't forget you can watch in HD.
Feedback comments likes and shares all appreciated.
Thanks.
http://youtu.be/xvxQJxV6eSk
Since you asked for feedback, I will give one piece of advice (as a fellow casual video shooter who likes making videos for fun): Edit tighter. It took a while for me to learn this, but it really does help to trim clips and the overall length of my videos down. Viewers can often get a sense of what's going on in 2-3 second bites. Unless you're depicting an extended action sequence, there usually isn't a need to linger on a scene for 10-20 seconds. A tadpole that's just sitting there doesn't need to be on screen for even 5 seconds (especially when spliced with other tadpole clips), and the danging caterpillar (which was cool!) could've been cut from 20 down to 5 seconds...
I've found that you're much more likely to keep viewers' attention this way. Let their eyes rest too long and they may get bored. Something that's tied to this editing process which you may find kinda fun is to pick out some different music and edit the video alongside that. The different breaks and changes in a particular song often work as nice cues for your visual cuts. Every couple bars of a song usually signal a video transition for me. One of the funnest parts of the editing process for me is finding a good piece of music to set it and edit my clips to. Of course, it's difficult to find music that can be used legally or licensed cheaply, but it is possible.
Anyway, sorry if that's not the type of feedback you wanted, but it looks like you're a kindred spirit when it comes to video, so I thought I'd share my experience.
Max
Thanks for watching.