The Digital Do It Yourself Age
Over at his own blog, Not News contributor Earl Green has a post breaking down one of his video editing do it yourself experiments. Earl’s been doing TV editing and postproduction work for years now, but he recently managed to acquire some solid equipment for himself. It’s been a lot of fun for me to watch him try and take his game to new levels. I’ve always absorbed behind the scenes books and documentaries like a sponge, but I’ve never taken it to that next step and actually tried to do it, even as a lark. But I do find it amazing the way that technology can make things like video production and broadcasting a potentially living-room-based process. Then again, it’s also let me broadcast my own scribblings to the world, so I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised, eh?
About Dave Thomer
Born and raised in Philadelphia. Studied philosophy at Fordham University in the Bronx, where I made many great friends and met my wonderful wife. We moved back to Philadelphia, where I studied philosophy some more and became a teacher. Online and off, I'm looking for ways that we can be better citizens and build stronger communities.
Friday, February 16th 2007 at 11:33 am |
[…] Digital Uah. Remember the post a few days ago about the DIY Doctor Who DVD menus? (I’m actually surprised there wasn’t more response from that – though at least Dave liked it!) I’m already working on its successor: a somewhat-similar-in-execution-but-not-in-style DVD menu for Jump Cut City. Y’know, just in case. Though this time I am working on a montage of JCC scenes from down through the ages, and the real challenge there is to pick the best ones for about a 1-2 minute loop. The thing about it is, I could probably keep picking until there’s about a 30 minute loop. Maybe I should post some clips here and let you guys pick the best ones, even though they’ll be about 40% more surreal just for the lack of any context! Another project I recently completed was a very simple trailer for the Star Trek: Origins fan film, combining some really simple Avid work with some 3-D animation (which I’m woefully out of practice on), but the ST:O crew seemed really jazzed by it. […]