I've spent the last few days, believe it or not, learning how to edit video. I am no where near where I want to be, but I'm a lot further along than I thought I could be. I have at the smallest level a rudimentary understanding of the software required and the editing process. Oddly enough, I've figured out dozens of effects that, while eye candy, are not exactly what I ever need to use for any personal video/movie.

To begin with, I took photos from one of jh2media's clients, live shoots and photos from a photo shoot they had with Melissa Holley, and put them in some kind of order, measuring out time, to a demo mp3 of the clients. Think of it as a picture video, but a video never the less. I added some basic effects, some grain, vertical, rough stripes that pulsed and blurred. For something like this, effects weren't so bad and added something to the still shots. It took hours to do, but was worth it. I've had privately posted the video to the client, and I'm awaiting their thoughts. If they okay it, it'll be publicly posted.

I have learned a few things in this editing experiment. First, my salvage computer isn't up to the task of real editing. The little 500 MHz heart does it's best and allows me to play any video game that I want to play, which isn't exactly new ones, but the same ones I played when my real computer died. Second, I can edit. I've already learned enough to take simple video footage and put together. I've also learned how to do color correction and specialty coloring (think Matrix). I really needed to know if I could do that part, and I can. I'm not going to be able to do it on this computer, but computers are easy to come by. What I really need is a camera, a nice, brand new Digital8 camera that says SONY on the side. Oh, you don't have to ask, I do take donations. No joke, I'll put you in a movie.

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