I X Technology!
ahhhhh! i had the most hectic weekend ever - so some of the best shots i had were taped over after the police incident; maybe they rewound it after viewing or something lol; then i found out through experience (it doesnt exactly click until you do it) that man, you need a very fast computer with tons of memory to edit video; as difficult as the audio was (and even that is not mixed well), the video was worse since it rendered so slowly and was so choppy (on top of the filming after being called in by the police wasn’t so steady either lol since i was a bit nervous at all times at being taken in again - i really don’t care, but i had no time or money for that!); i couldnt get a WYSIWYG for the edits, so i had to estimate; it was “shooting in the dark” for a lot of it lol; also, the free programs, well, i’m not saying they’re not good in a pinch, but on top of a slow or corrupted computer, they have bugs (SAVE YOUR WORK OFTEN LOL - i lost so much raw, recorded, and edited data this weekend, it’s not even funny) - some of the bugs may include the program totally closing in the wink of an eye for no apparent reason lol - but i guess the craziest thing is dealing with all the different formats - multimedia is difficult enough, but multiformatting, which programs deal with which formats and which ones take this audio but not that one and which video extensions and importing and exporting, etc.!!! well, the upshot of all this is i have got some good, hard-won experience on my hands and can ask more precise questions to professionals on this; here’s the film - it’s not as good as i wanted it to be (nothing ever comes out the way you expect in art anyway) but on top of it it sucked that i had to replace some of my shot images with still images; oh well, live and learn, trial by fire and all that; but for little money, amateur equipment, sparse experience, and a very short time to do it in, i can’t complain too much…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ONp-lh8Uqg