So there are a few options with my phone and I am trying to figure out what works best, so I can get everything in line for the first video project due this week. I have started downloading Adobe Premiere and played a bit in Microsoft Expression Encode and Windows Movie Maker (2010 beta).
I thought for fun I could do a simple spoof of a MTV Cribs episode and air where I live as a practice project. This is already looking to be an interesting problem.
I started by looking at the web for an episode to compare my visions of the project to and found this episode. I immediately had conflicts and learned the value of those second by second timelines we were doing in class. I underestimated how important multiple shots of the same thing would be. I also saw how the interviewee (is that the appropriate word) could be used as the voice over (and be better than the voice over I was imagining I’d do). I shot some video and later decided it was not worth using. I took one long shot which was a tour of my (dirty) apartment and found that it was really boring and a voice over to that would also be very boring. What I needed was someone to take us from room to room and I couldn’t do that alone and didn’t feel that it was worth bothering my roommates to show us around. I didn’t finish what I originally thought was cool, but I did learn a lot from just playing around with things. BTW: You can never pan too slowly and it always looks shakier when you play it back than when you record it…
Here is some footage of a pan of my room in the various formats. I was trying to figure out what worked best for motion, had highest FPS and quality.
(UPDATE: I know its hard to see a difference through YouTube… but I guess it is still good to have the evidence of what the different settings gave me. Also, for those who are wondering, I did not have to convert any video files or worry about codecs, my phone produced .3gs files and apparently all the programs I used had no problem with them)
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