Sunday, May 19, 2013

Video experiment

As promised, here is a link to my first attempt at a video production from the D800.  Recorded the guitar clip first, then a bunch of clips of the vocal.  I used Final Cut Pro to put it all together.

I'm still learning the program.  The interface is very similar to iMovie if you have a Mac, but it has a lot more options and the codec is much more sophisticated, producing 1080 quality HD video output.  I found it a bit tricky to overlay clips and stills and texture and video simultaneously, and I'm still working on that aspect.  This is just the basic shots with a black-white process overlaid with an 'old paper' texture.  Nothing fancy.  I can tell now that the audio is distorted, so I'll have to go back and output the file again with the audio track attenuated some.  Anyway, I am pleased at the promise of this new option for me.  Here is the result from YouTube - click the image to view the clip.