Today I was thrilled AND bummed all in the same 15 minutes. Talk about a steep learning curve. Blessedly, the video guys that help me at CAPS-TV really are great. So patient. So very patient. There's Evan and Donald and Gary, who talks so fast and so much that I can only follow maybe 1/2 of what he's saying. But what I can follow is valuable. Way.
So today I figured out how to do a cutaway with a fade in and fade out and if you could have seen my Happy Dance you would have been embarrassed for me.
Then I saw one other problem -- with each cut to a new camera I lose the sound associated with the original clip. From what I can understand, the process of saving the audio, in iMovie11, is so complex you would be better off in Final Cut Pro.
But I don't have access to Final Cut Pro. The station only offers iMovie11. It's public access after all. It's a gift!
I'm thinking it might be time to stop pussy footing around and just start editing the documentary. Editing 3 cameras of a musical performance appears to be way, way harder than editing with one camera, which is the way I taped all of Voices of the Homeless.
This afternoon I used my lunch hour once again to get 1/2 hour in at the editing bay at CAPS. Tonight I have a 4-hour slot. Tonight I need to transfer the interviews of last weekend onto my hard drive.
I feel like such a no-nothing. This learning curve is soooooo steep.
I was so thrilled and now I'm so bummed again. I wonder where I'll be by 10 tonight . . .
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