We find ourselves here again; another week removed from the one that came previously. And yet, we find ourselves having not learnt from the verity of a history that in actuality, should perpetuate the indifference that inhibits the progression of an extraordinary future, that all within the group fails to comprehend.
The project again remains where it has been for a while now, waiting for a beginning to take it to a brilliant ending. It is not the intention of mine for this post to lament the project's progress or project for that matter, and take up an a considerable amount of column space explaining an enduring obstacle that could be easily dealt with, if only the dealers would be willing to deal with it. And we will have to soon enough, before it's too late.
Moving on, for the last few weeks I have been readying myself for the start of the project by scouting for possible locations, taking up acting lessons if I call it that and assorting my character's look and costume.
For this week, I thought I would get to grips with the denouement of the project before it got there: with post production editing.
I have made a few videos before using Final Cut Pro, and at first, found editing to be an insurmountable nightmare to come to terms with, due in part to a tricky and fickle system of tools and functions which, without a executive manual, was made all the more harder to use. However over time, I found myself overcome with joy at how fun and easy editing is to be.
For this project, it is my understanding that another programme is requested to be used which would render my Final Cut Pro knowledge obsolete. And that programme is Adobe Premier Pro. It took varying degrees of attempts to hold on to my sanity while getting to grips with Final Cut Pro, and to make my impending date with the fickleness of Adobe more of a joy than a nightmare, what better time I thought, to set up my date with the inevitable drudgery of destiny.
Unfortunately, for a reason which perplexes, I was unable to make use of Lynda.com which would make the £9000 I pay to use it, less reminding of the unprecedented debt I face once my academic tenure ceases. To take my mind off this inevitable onus, I headed straight to YouTube to feast from the many tutorials that are available.
A series of video I came across titled Adobe Premier Pro Tutorials* from user "thenewboston", makes me optimistic that once it comes to it, editing using the software will be less of a burden than I thought it would be.
The main features of Final Cut Pro, importing files into the programme, cutting video clips to a desired size and editing files in the timeline, appears to be more or less the same in Adobe's version. The latter's operating system however, is simplistic in comparison and would make a laborious editing process, more straighforward than tedious.
One of the plans at the moment is to insert credits at the end, and possibility to use a title sequence at the beginning of the video. Again, from what I saw and understood, the nuances which typically disassociates identical technological entities from another, in this case, appears too minuscule to make that judgment that the group would have difficulties implementing similar creative ideas into the video with Adobe Premier: there really is nothing to suggest a vast difference in using Adobe Premier to the accustomed and safe feeling that Final Cut Pro has amongst us.
We should have no problem in the near future, I feel, from what I saw, editing the tour de force that remains idle at the starting gate. As soon as the video is provoked, there will be nothing stopping it from the path of redemption it desperately wants to take.
Ceysun Dixon: KU ID: K1326851
*A few of the videos viewed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBZNkXbUmpQ - exercising tools on Adobe Premier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfY0nD4uYAA - Using the timeline on Adobe Premier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46MLWBEvgrU - Making a title on Adobe Premier
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