March 20, 2005
Living and Recording
I shot this video with my Canon Powershot S410 digital still camera. Edited with iMovie in about an hour. Took roughly another half hour to get my compression settings to work correctly (it kept dropping the audio at the end of the clip, so I had to add the fade out with the title at the end).
Its just a little rant on my favorite subject these days... videoblogging.
I noticed too that I make kind of an over-the-top statement at the end -- that the "line of professionalism doesn't mean anything anymore." This is obviously not true. It does mean something... but it doesn't mean as much as it used to.
I'll probably never be able to make videos on par with mainstream media -- I don't have the time, money, training, or equipment. But I can make stuff that's good enough for me and more than likely good enough for people to watch. I could certainly learn how to better edit and compress video, or how to smooth out the audio so that it doesn't make subtle popping sounds between edits. These are elements that a professional might notice right away to point out to me that the line of professionalism means a lot more than I give it credit for.
But the barrier aint what it used to be, and that's an extremely cool thing.
Posted by jkinberg at March 20, 2005 8:50 AM
Comments
awesome awesome awesome
use that little digital camera.
be completely crazy.
anything goes.
you know its not about competing...its about adding to the texture of life.
Posted by: jay dedman at March 21, 2005 6:14 PM
i like this kind of video.
makes me think about stuff and also i'm glad other people are thinking about this stuff too.
fuck, i forgot to do my taxes...
shit.
thanks for the reminder.
Posted by: ryanne at March 22, 2005 3:53 PM
I also have a Canon S410. Forgot about the video function. Hosted a group of friends at a Mexican restaurant in Vienna, Virginia. Back at the Mac, downloaded a surprisingly lengthy vid of my groin region, with sloppy pans of patient faces as I ranted, "Wait! Wait! Did it go off? Let me try again!" I am not ready to put VideoBlogger on my tax return yet, but give me a minute. Wait! Wait!
Posted by: Charles Glore at April 23, 2005 3:54 PM
Meant to comment on "line of professionalism." A modern HandyCam is far superior to the old wind-up Bell & Howell and Bolex 16s that we used in the real old days -- editing is no longer a mind-numbing, time-eating chop job. Professionalism is purely a matter of access to "a body of knowledge" and a set of standards governing how that knowledge is applied. I don't have to like what I see to like what I see.
Posted by: Charles Glore at April 23, 2005 4:23 PM
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