Editing

Behind the Scenes: Record from The Lincoln Motor Company on Vimeo.

I love the idea of putting a small camera on an object and filming event from that perspective. The idea of putting a gopro on a record is an interesting one. With the size of technology today you’d expect this to be simple to do. I was disappointed to see that what they did for this video clip was to build a camera rig for a Red Epic and get the camera to spin. The second fallacy is the amount of time for which the record is speeding at “normal speed”. The image is blurred for too long before it goes to slow motion images. By that time I pressed pause and looked at the making of. As a person who loves the documentary genre and cinema verité this manufactured reality feels like a cheap lie rather than innovative experimentation.

I was disappointed by the way this video was cut. You don’t really see what’s going on. It’s just a jumble of shots.

Prangins teaser from Richard Azia on Vimeo.

I went to the Prangins Fly in today and filmed a Super Puma an Extra 330 SC, the Breitling DC3 Dakota and one or two more aircraft. Edit coming shortly.

Sony Professional: NAB 2013 - Introducing the new PMW-400 camcorder from Sony Professional Europe on Vimeo.

Two minutes in to this video there is a demonstration of the wireless options available with the PMW range of cameras. While filming you have remote monitoring. You can also send the data to your servers for editing.

Waiting for the iPhone4 to come out in the hope to do mobile video editing is not necessary. Vericorder have come out with an app for that. The app is a simple to use video, recording and voice over recording app that allows for video editing and distribution to be possible on the move. There are three modes, record video, take photographs and record voice. Each of these modes allows you to gather material, name the clip and then record the next shot. The project tab allows you to add video clips to the sequence, shortening and sorting the videos in the order you want. After that is done go to the voice ovee app, record the audio, transcribe what you have said before adding the audio track to the timeline. Once that is done save the project. Export the video, chose send as video and you will have a finished edited news item. It is intuitive to use. Within ten minutes of use I understood how it works and simplz need to find events furring which to test the applicAtion.

The Tricaster is a Multimedia portable switcher. In other words it’s an OB van in a box. It’s a vision mixing deck on the light. They range from having two sources to six depending on your needs. Rather than have racks and racks of expensive gear to lug around for low budget shoots you get this gadget, plug in a few external sources and get your laptop plugged in. You can mix between a number of sources, do chroma key, play videotapes and even record onto internal drives. It’s not a bad alternative to think about when working on smaller scale multicamera productions

Documentally - Oct 1, 2007

Good points. I try to do the same and am in fact staying over in Birmingham tomorrow to save on the unessesary milage over two days. I also like to use my laptop on the battery where possible so as not to be contantly drawing on the mains. I am sure switching between uses less power. I recently bought one of these devices as well.. http://www.reuk.co.uk/Owl-Wireless-Electricity-Monitor.htm It is amazing seeing what is being used and when..

When I started video editing it required a powerful desktop computer and moving it around was hard. Now I’m working on a laptop. This is great for the environment and here’s why.

When the equipment you are using is portable it means that you can edit from the client’s offices rather than your own. Several times already I have gone to the office of those whom I work for. If there is a desk free beside them then they may go along with their daily routine whilst I keep working on my own work. Once there’s a rough cut I show them the edit and see whether they like it, apply any changes and once that’s done I can author a DVD.

A few months ago I filmed the Silent Disco in Paddington station, one of London’s main train stations. As a result of the coverage of the event many people were happy to see it. With the footage I have recently filmed of the events that took place on the 6th of October I am once again getting a lot of that appreciation through facebook comments. It feels good and I need to find more events to cover that will get this type of response. update:– I’m also really looking forward to watching the trends on tubemogul as I see whether it will increase over a period of hours or a period of days. It’s always fun to watch how many views you get over a period of weeks and months.

Today has been an informative day where there have been many conferences to participate in. The morning saw the introduction of the event whilst later on a great discussion took place about social networking and I’ve got the footage to give you an idea of the direction the conference was taking. On a side note we were introduced to vlogsnapz, an application designed to make video blogging simpler. So far I’ve seen that you can upload to a number of popular video sharing website and the interface is simple. When you record the application gives you accept, refuse and set tasks to offer a few extra options. Here’s a quick link to a video shot last night and edited by 7am today.