Ok so I talked briefly before aobut what I was having to do to get my work done. Here is a verbal demonstration.
Spend days filming documentary
Realisation that voice overs and shots I want are unachievable
Decision to film 100% of the content as a video diary
Decision to use iPod to film them, small mobile tripod etc
Regretting using iPod due to stupid orientation of video
Converting all of my files to MP4
Inverting the majority of my recordings
Rendering said files the right way up
Finding that due to the poor microphone on the iPod 5 of my clips are out of sync
Spending 3 hours fixing and re-rendering
So now I am finally working on the actual edit. Being a video diary I'm keen on having rough transitions, just stopping and starting new clips. But I have to demonstate some editing so I am adding in transitions effects between each clip. So far the video stands at around 25-30 mins in length.....Alot longer than I had expected but for an authentic feel that I have planned and researched it can't really be any shorter and hold it's informative value.
Rendering such a length of film takes a loooooooong time. For some reason the render that I did before saving didn't stay. Half an hour and going strong!
I discovered I had enough time to add in title frames between sequences. Actually makes it look much cooler and more interesting than it looked before. Even managed to add a credits on the end. Changed the feel of the video completely.
Encoding is prooving a problem. 30 mins in the process errored. With a bit of tweaking in the settings the file size has come right down. The only downside is that it's so far taken an hour and ten minutes, with at least 20 left to go.....
All done, can't upload to youtube, it says the file is too big. Will have to try Vimeo.
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