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jk wrote:
No I dont do video but
In this game there is ALWAYS a but!
One of the main reasons I don't do video is the video is easy enough to get into the camera, the amount of work involved in processing video from rough files to finished product is disproportionate. For what?
A few stills convey the message with a tenth of the processing effort and far less storage.
There are occasions where stills don't convey the entire message, like the Ratty Railway video which I helped Graham with but that probably took ten times as much work and effort in the processing stage as it took to record on camera.
That said I have been invited to help out at a local studio where they specialise in training budding young videographers! Watch this space... They use Macs too.
Once upon a time I would have agreed with you but watching some of Jans videos of the places we have been has made me realise seeing movement and hearing the sounds gives a much stronger memory response.
Without being too morbid, a good friend who lost his wife a few years back takes great comfort from seeing her and hearing her when he plays back some of the many years videoing he did. He doesn't sit there and just play videos but on occasions he refers back to events for other reasons he is 'taken right back' in a moment....far more than the photos around his walls.
Video editing doesn't have to be that time consuming. If you are merely stringing together the footage you have, as opposed to shooting a presteuctured movie. The trouble comes with insufficient cutaway material to punctuate the 'story'. I keep drumming into Jan ...cutaway shots....cutaway shots.....even when just doing holiday footage. And she is getting quite good at it....but I am biased.
Last edited on Thu Oct 11th, 2018 02:33 by Eric
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