EdHart.meIt’s been a hot minute since I’ve been able to produce some videos! And man, I’ve really missed it. I’m constantly battling the tension between being someone who loves to create, but having a job where I manage stuff. Over the course of my career, I’ve found that it’s close to impossible, at least for me, to be both creator and the manager at the same time!
I just finished a video on using Adobe After Effects to re-create an animated text effect that I see every time I look at videos on my Weather Channel app on my iPhone. I really like the effect and wanted to use for a project and it may help you too. It’s a simple “reveal animation” where a line appears written on the screen and then text appears above then below the line making for a quick and stylish way to use text to enhance what’s happening in the video.
I’ve had to do public speaking as a part of my work for many years. While I’m not the most polished presenter out there, I have had the opportunity to go through a couple public speaking training programs such as Dale Carnegie and Fusion that have taught me some valuable speaking skills and techniques.
I just watched it… wow, that was cool. And it’s as if we’re on the verge of it right now. The YouTube spot is a little long at 5:32, but hey, it’s a day right? Who would’ve thought something this neat came from a glass manufacturer? Watch for the moving pictures @ 0:56 (you’ll see them again later). @ 2:04, “I want that car!” And I’m especially loving Mr. Metro at 2:56. Why can’t I look cool like that? Enjoy tomorrow today.
Now I’m just waiting for the sequel from the company that’s creating the operating system…
Just finished my first wedding video ever. The actual service was pretty long, and is going onto a DVD, but I put together this highlights video that I thought turned out pretty nice. I’m going for “emotional but not cheesy” and hopefully I did ok on that. Yes, I know there’s some slo-mo, but I took a somewhat classical approach to the music in order to make up for that. Finished this up late last night. It’s amazing what a decent musical score can do with very average video footage!
I’m so glad that both the wedding service itself and the highlights video turned out ok. Since this was the first time I’ve done a wedding, I had that sinking feeling the whole time that I was getting the wrong angles, the lighting was bad, the audio wasn’t picking up, my footage was too jerky… all that stuff. And honestly, the footage wasn’t that great – there’s quite a few things I’ll do different next time – but all in all with some helpful post production filters in FCP, I am hopeful it will be a nice heirloom for Carmen & Charles. Congratulations to the two of you. God bless.
Music (once again) came from my Stock 20 music library. This is such a great library of stock music and I’d recommend it to anyone out there. I did all the editing work on this one in Final Cut Pro with extensive use of the ProcAmp filter!