Our university held a press conference today to kick off an urban renewal project. The event received good coverage from local tv, but we also had our own campus video journalist on hand. The press conference lasted from 10:30 – 11:30, and I had a mini-dv tape in my hands at 11:45. By 4:30 I had uploaded a finished video to our campus website.
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I imagine there are tv/newsroom editors who do this kind of thing every day. They get last-minute footage and edit it with the pressure of a looming 5:00 news deadline. To those people, my little video editing accomplishment today is nothing special. But for a novice, running iMovie, its pretty cool to breathe life into a video project over the course of an afternoon. Even if it’s only a minute and a half long.
Ask me in six months and I’ll tell you it sucks. But today I’m proud of it.
August 15th, 2007 at 8:56 am
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