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In the past couple of weeks, I've been trying out some semi-professional video editing programs, and learning to use their various features. I finally settled on Filmora9 for the time being; it has all the features I've wanted, with a good interface and help menus, and a not-too-steep learning curve.
One of the things I've wanted to do is to create videos using still images, either combined with actual video footage, or not, that have "camera motion" added in the editing process -- the so-called "Ken Burns effect" which actually entails a whole set of decisions involving different motions, transitions, durations, and edits. Here's my first publishable effort -- and obviously it doesn't have a sound track, that's another whole area to learn about. (Dave Bonta, I'm thinking of you and your moving poems, and all the work that's gone into them over the years.)
Video creation and editing are a lot of fun, and the perfect, picky sort of work that I like. This is something I've wanted to do for years. It should be a help for Phoenicia, for my own artwork, and for various organizations I'm involved with. The second project I've been working on is a five-minute loop of photographs J. took at the Montreal Climate March this past fall, which he'll be showing at the cathedral during Nuit Blanche on February 29, and I'll see if I can post that here after the event.
Brava for learning this tool! I can see how useful it will be for various projects and at same time I have never enjoyed a video of a single painting; just when I want to take something in, off it goes, elsewhere. Yet, I did appreciate the zoom feature, allwong me to see detail.
Posted by: Duchesse | February 18, 2020 at 08:12 AM
I was born too early. There isn't time for me to learn how to animate immobile images, especially since I've just made a few faltering steps in resuming a novel I started in 2015 and which has been stuck at 45,000 words for ages.
But I can see the fascination. Just to make things more interesting and more personal why don't you write a poem intended to be accompanied by a melody you already know (a hymn tune, for instance, to keep things simple). Which you then record a capella and integrate with a newly animated version of one of your paintings. I fear there's a degree of malice here. I hardly regard myself a poet but I was tempted to do just this (but without the painting), using Handel's setting of Silent Witness as my musical base. It proved to be fiendishly difficult. Writing a poem that scans properly is difficult enough; writing one that matches the exigencies of a melody raises the bar tenfold.
However, just imagine, the final thing would be all yours. But not quite. To ensure 100% domination you'd have to write the melody as well. Provided you found enough time fit in eating, drinking and sleeping. Bonne chance!
Posted by: Roderick Robinson | February 20, 2020 at 02:33 AM