I got Final Cut Express HD for the Macintosh on Friday. Call it semi-pro video editing software, appropriate to folks like me with significant commercial needs but with neither the time nor the talent to make use of a higher-priced spread.
What you get with Final Cut Express is multi-track video and sound editing with cable-channel-like titling and a blue million sound effects. It doesn’t do green-screen superimposition (I don’t think), but the fanatical home-movie mechanic has everything he needs to alienate an entire family reunion in one elaborate film.
What I want, for now at least, it to insert slide-show images over live video, and I spent a bunch of time playing with those toys over the weekend. Today I built what I think will be my final statement on the video slide show: No full-motion video, but loads of fun with transitions.
I have loads to learn, but I think this hangs together pretty well. Give it a look. It’s fun.
Kris Berg says:
You DO have a sense of humor! Hysterically funny, Greg. A weekend well-spent, I would say. 🙂
May 28, 2007 — 5:20 pm
Russell Shaw says:
LOL !! I think it is really fantastic. I hope you will show me how to do that.
May 28, 2007 — 6:24 pm
Tom says:
Funny, well produced, but ouch…
remind me never to publicize when I travel. 🙂
May 29, 2007 — 5:41 am
Keith Jeppson says:
Very funny. I’ve always heard that what goes at the wharf stays at the wharf…or was that Vegas.
Seriously, don’t know if it was my network or the link but the load was very slow. The audio hit and played prior to any video.
May 29, 2007 — 4:56 pm
Kris Berg says:
Keith, I didn’t have the same problem, but I always play in pop-up mode. Greg, I own the title of Friend and Family Alienator thanks to Pinnacle’s Studio software (which I have since lobbed onto the Interstate at rush hour, recognizing that the bugs and related frustration outweighed the way-cool transitions, and one of us had to go).
May 29, 2007 — 8:20 pm
Doug Quance says:
Yikes!
That was pretty cool, Greg! You’re getting to be an old hand at this pretty quick!!
(Although I doubt that neither Bert nor Ernie will like it.)
June 4, 2007 — 10:05 am