It feels good to have a movie-editing project complete. Not only is it fun to watch the polished—or at least finished—film, but the editing can become somewhat tedious and tiresome as time fails to stop passing. For me time has finally ceased to fail, meaning that my latest project is done, and I feel some sense of relief (and accomplishment, I suppose).
This actually wasn't a huge project of any kind, and I've made only one mention of it before—
yesterday-ish, actually. Unlike my three previous videos, which were goofy projects of my own filmed with a digital camera, this one is a goofy project of my church's filmed with their super-nice DV camera. Really, it doesn't involve anyone here on any level except that Watoad (me) helped with the planning, acting, and editing. I just happen to be uploading a small version of the movie to the Internet for my coconspirators to see, and it's convenient for me to post a link for potentially interested bystanders here as well.
Please note that the intended audience of this movie is college students attending a Christian worship and social gathering. Add that to the fact that it is intended to be a promotional video, and you might realize that you have no real reason to download and watch it. As always, that's cool if you don't; I just want to warn the potentially harmable bystanders from being offended or bored.
Dang, why do I type so much for something so little? I think I have problems. Here's the oversized file you've already waited too long to decide that you don't want to download:
The oversized file. (91.8 MB)
Oh, wait. There's another thing that I have to say. Hmm, I should have planned this post better or something.
My apologies to the Mac crowd with which I have always affiliated, but I have to step across the line a little tonight. I used iMovie to do the editing, and it disappointed this time around. Perhaps I'm ready for something a bit more advanced because I ran into multiple situations where I just didn't have the level of control that I needed, and it was quite frustrating.
Probably the worst thing was exporting the completed film, which I never managed to understand. It took me forever to get the settings right for the version linked above, which is larger than it should be because everything else I tried looked like garbage. And I've yet to successfully export a full, loss-less version for displaying on my own computer. I guess iMovie just doesn't handle high-quality video very well.
There you have it. Apple disappointed, and I don't care to stand up for them for the sake of standing up for them anymore. I'll wait until I'm appointed again before I stand back up.