In preparation for some upcoming web projects I’ll be doing for work, I’ve been asked to teach myself how to shoot and edit video. Considering I am the world’s worst teacher AND the world’s worst student, this has been no small feat.
I began my torrid romance with iMovie a scant eight hours ago, and this piddly nugget of pointlessness is all I have to show for it.
This video is as lousy as it is brilliant from Lindsey Turner on Vimeo.
It’s cobbled together from old video scraps and some stuff I shot the other day with the Flip camera I borrowed from work, which helps to explain why it’s so, uh, random.
No cat clips, can you believe it?
Anyway, I think I exported it at the wrong size, because it looks kinda wonky and the text has got some weird compression issues. I might go back and re-export or I might not.
This endeavor has exhausted me. I’m going to bed.
Tomorrow is election day and OH HOW EXCITED I AM. For democracy! For vote totals and percentages of precincts reporting! For smarmy acceptance speeches and weeping spouses in the background!
Just kidding. I hate election day.
*Music in the video is from Only Son
I like it. But maybe, I just like the music.
I’m not really sure.
LT,
More the latter than former I think. Which reminds me, did you come across iMovie legally or through back-channels? I am attempting to find a video editor but am having trouble finding something that suits the n00b and is also free.
TV, I love that kid. He opened for Regina Spektor — his lovah — and bantered with his iPod. Good times.
P, thanks! I got the iLife suite on the new laptop, so I paid for that shiz. I’d say it’s pretty noob friendly, but then again, I have nothing to compare it to…
My buddy Joey and I are doing a web show, or Wow (pronounced whoa) and I’m trying jumpcut but I’m not totally sure that you can save your videos for uploading to youtube. I wonder how one might go about acquiring iMovie without the additional purchase of the iMactop. Hmmm.