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Sunday, March 28, 2010
Be Magnified
Lately I've been feeling a lot of discouragement with regard to my career and my business. Then on Thursday night, at worship team rehearsal, one of the songs we did was Be Magnified. The words spoke to me and I felt inspiration.
I felt prompted to record the service this morning, and this song is from that service.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Multi-camera editing
I'm running out of space on my Elephant drive.
I've had my Mac for almost a year now and the external media drive that I bought with it is almost full now. I analyzed the drive to find out what was taking up the most space. Last November we had a guest speaker, Claude Robold, at my church. I videotaped him - those files have been sitting on my drive since then taking up space. I had to delete the files or do something with them so that I could complete a project and archive the files in order to reclaim the space. I wasn't willing to delete the files yet, not without doing something with them first.
I ended up editing what was about a one-hour message down to 18 minutes.
Chuck had videotaped the speaker as well. Something I've wanted to do was a multi-camera edit, so I asked Chuck if I could get a copy of his video, which he let me.
I also had an audio track which did not come from either of the two cameras. I had recorded the audio off the soundboard, so it was not synchronized with the video. I was working with two non-synchronized video tracks and one non-synchronized audio track. By non-synchronized, I mean that the moment at which the speaker's mouth moved (in the video track) did not line up with the moment at which he uttered a sound (in the audio track). The first thing I did was manually synchronize the audio with each of the two video tracks separately. Once I did that, it meant that the two video tracks were also synchronized to each other.
At this point I had about an hour or so of content which I edited down to 18 minutes. The next thing to do is make an edit in which I select the points in time where I want to switch from one camera to the other.
I've had my Mac for almost a year now and the external media drive that I bought with it is almost full now. I analyzed the drive to find out what was taking up the most space. Last November we had a guest speaker, Claude Robold, at my church. I videotaped him - those files have been sitting on my drive since then taking up space. I had to delete the files or do something with them so that I could complete a project and archive the files in order to reclaim the space. I wasn't willing to delete the files yet, not without doing something with them first.
I ended up editing what was about a one-hour message down to 18 minutes.
Chuck had videotaped the speaker as well. Something I've wanted to do was a multi-camera edit, so I asked Chuck if I could get a copy of his video, which he let me.
I also had an audio track which did not come from either of the two cameras. I had recorded the audio off the soundboard, so it was not synchronized with the video. I was working with two non-synchronized video tracks and one non-synchronized audio track. By non-synchronized, I mean that the moment at which the speaker's mouth moved (in the video track) did not line up with the moment at which he uttered a sound (in the audio track). The first thing I did was manually synchronize the audio with each of the two video tracks separately. Once I did that, it meant that the two video tracks were also synchronized to each other.
At this point I had about an hour or so of content which I edited down to 18 minutes. The next thing to do is make an edit in which I select the points in time where I want to switch from one camera to the other.
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