A rather un-inspiring weekend. Went out Friday and Saturday, but really not in the mood to get wild (not that I ever really do), nor to do “phone-number begging” (not that I ever really do).
I did however sleep quite a bit on Sunday. Also the weather was bad, so I stayed at home all day. It’s actually been raining for a few days already.
Today I went to the gym. Ran about 3 kilometers. I weighed at 70.40 Kg. That means that I’m keeping my weight, actually lowering it: 0.05 Kg less. Even though recently I keep going to the gym just once per week.
I’ve been on and off, trying to do some video editing. I have footage of a recent gathering at the home of a friend. I’m trying to get something out of it.
The biggest problem is the quality of the shots. It’s all jerky and the contents are far from scripted. Whomever takes the shot (me included), it hardly ever comes out something really useful. Especially if one would like to put things in a logical sequence.
Recently I’ve been trying to put music in background. That works well when there isn’t much yelling and screaming, basically on outdoor shots. That’s not the case for what I have here, so I need to make the best of what people say, edit it in a way that it’s not boring, but that isn’t unfair either.
This time I’m experimenting with chopping dialogues as to give the impression of a faster pace. Not sure what the technical term would be. I’ve seen it used on some recent serial TVs 8)
I’ve also been close to twist a sequence and make it seem like a friend is talking bad of the girlfriend of another friend.. A few cuts and what is a positive remark, can turn into a negative comment. I’m trying to avoid that, but at the same time it makes me think on how many times I see something in TV and I’m perhaps being fed the wrong message, thanks to malicious editing or by mistake.
In any case this editing is taking quite a chunk of time. Encoding will take a few more hours too. De-interlace is a must if one isn’t encoding a DVD. That takes time. Noise-reduction is also pretty important for indoor shots (especially with my aging camera), that takes quite a bit of time too. Color correction is also important, that probably doesn’t take much time.. ..ops, I’m supposed to work in the color space thing !
I better go to sleep. Poof !
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