Crunch Time
Well it appears that all of my classes are preparing to wrap up with lots of papers and presentations to follow. As I am working through various projects this one is still the one that intrigues me the most, as I have found a sort of love/hate relationship with filming and editing. On one hand, I love that I am filming. Loading up my clips onto the computer fills me with such a sense of satisfaction, and playing around with the various effects of Final Cut Pro X is a lot of fun. On the other hand, some issues arose when trying to figure out this program via trial and error. Thank heavens for the Apple Support Communities, I honestly don’t know how people could have coped with their issues by only referencing troubleshooting in the user manuals of the past. I was one of those people a few years ago and I still don’t know how I did it.
Anyways, as I said, Apple Support Communities is one of my favourite tools thus far. Although a lot of the comments are not very helpful there are a few gems that have helped me immensely with the work I’ve been doing. For example, I was importing my media from my digital memory card directly from my computer, but I was importing it all into the same folder, which apparently wasn’t copying it to the hard drive in any coherent form…So I would edit a string of events and then take out my memory card to continue filming and lose chunks of my video. Luckily putting the memory card back in solved most of that, but the online forum gave me step by step instructions of how to avoid that in the future. It was pretty terrifying to see “Media not found” in big red letters all throughout my video.
Also, last class I believe it was Courtney that recommended the “Vine” app to me. It allows short video clips to be filmed and posted to social media sites such as Twitter. Courtney was awesome enough to share that with me, saying she immediately thought of my project when she was playing around with it. Like her, I think it would be a great addition to my Twitter previews, and could be a great asset towards the social media aspect of this channel.
Today, in addition to more filming, I am hoping to come up with a catchy intro to be used in all of my videos. Something short that can let everyone know that this is a running channel that will have more videos, all “stamped” with the Battle Bites logo.
I am very excited to get to my finished product and share it with the class! I am hoping the first video will be up on Youtube by the end of the week if not sooner.
See you all in class!
Jenna Helder 