"Waiting for Death in Texas" is a video I shot with Yevette as we sat on the porch and watched for tornadoes and waited for death. People really are dying from the storms around here but Fort Worth has been doing ok so far.
The video isn't uploaded as it would take a Star Trek to do it on this machine. I have no idea how long a Star Trek might be but it seems like a long time. Then came the flash: Yevette has Final Cut on her machine. This clip isn't dependent on any other so welcome to Final Cut, Yevette. She's been wanting to tangle with it but hasn't had any particular reason to do it. Once she knows how to do it then maybe she comes up with reasons and it would be interesting to see what she does.
There's no ego for me in the videos. I enjoy doing them but my art is my music ... or it's not. The videos can help tell a story but they aren't THE story. It would be just as cool for me if Yevette were shooting video as she brings her own ideas of things she wants to see and that adds new blood to it, always good.
So that's a plan as that machine is much more powerful than this one. It's the one in the Save the 2006 Mac Pro campaign but that is frozen for now as it's very bad juju to jack around another computer while the primary has its paws in the air. It would be very cool to put the extra chips in there as they will give a huge boost to compute power but there are some Immutable Laws of Computers. You never screw with a second one while the first one is down.
The reason for Final Cut is the video has some brief glimpses of Yevette and those aren't permitted either by her for her own reasons and mine because the video isn't to show our faces. We're the pitiful, faceless voice of the Great Flood of Texas just before we meet our ends or get washed away to Cuba which actually wouldn't be too bad.
Whether it stays funny through an edit is the test. Making a giggle one time is not such a big deal but it has to have some beef if you don't hate it before you're finished editing.
The demon on your shoulder tells you, man, this is complete crap. After a couple of edit passes, maybe you agree, yep, it's complete crap. Then you burn it. Evolution in action.
This one may get chucked but that would be ok as we would just make another one and I think Yevette leans toward that anyway. The next shot at it would be to use a static camera but that one has a much better mike and it's got a windscreen on it. Using that one also means there's no chance of slipping and getting either one of us in it. Her voice isn't so loud in this one but the other mike should handle that nicely. I can fix the audio in this one but jacking the audio up and down can give a herky jerky feeling to it.
We'll see. A video is sure to come of this eventually as there's not a whole hell of a lot else to do when the Big Cheese has rolled over dead. So improvise, improvise.
Yevette thinks I jinxed us by shooting the video and now we really are going to die. Uh oh. I figure, wtf, if it happens, it's written already. There's nowhere to go so kick back, smoke a bowl (she doesn't), and be cool.
Power is kicking in and out. Taking the kit down.
Note: I have no intention of dying and neither shall anyone around me. Thems the rules and they're not negotiable.
The video isn't uploaded as it would take a Star Trek to do it on this machine. I have no idea how long a Star Trek might be but it seems like a long time. Then came the flash: Yevette has Final Cut on her machine. This clip isn't dependent on any other so welcome to Final Cut, Yevette. She's been wanting to tangle with it but hasn't had any particular reason to do it. Once she knows how to do it then maybe she comes up with reasons and it would be interesting to see what she does.
There's no ego for me in the videos. I enjoy doing them but my art is my music ... or it's not. The videos can help tell a story but they aren't THE story. It would be just as cool for me if Yevette were shooting video as she brings her own ideas of things she wants to see and that adds new blood to it, always good.
So that's a plan as that machine is much more powerful than this one. It's the one in the Save the 2006 Mac Pro campaign but that is frozen for now as it's very bad juju to jack around another computer while the primary has its paws in the air. It would be very cool to put the extra chips in there as they will give a huge boost to compute power but there are some Immutable Laws of Computers. You never screw with a second one while the first one is down.
The reason for Final Cut is the video has some brief glimpses of Yevette and those aren't permitted either by her for her own reasons and mine because the video isn't to show our faces. We're the pitiful, faceless voice of the Great Flood of Texas just before we meet our ends or get washed away to Cuba which actually wouldn't be too bad.
Whether it stays funny through an edit is the test. Making a giggle one time is not such a big deal but it has to have some beef if you don't hate it before you're finished editing.
The demon on your shoulder tells you, man, this is complete crap. After a couple of edit passes, maybe you agree, yep, it's complete crap. Then you burn it. Evolution in action.
This one may get chucked but that would be ok as we would just make another one and I think Yevette leans toward that anyway. The next shot at it would be to use a static camera but that one has a much better mike and it's got a windscreen on it. Using that one also means there's no chance of slipping and getting either one of us in it. Her voice isn't so loud in this one but the other mike should handle that nicely. I can fix the audio in this one but jacking the audio up and down can give a herky jerky feeling to it.
We'll see. A video is sure to come of this eventually as there's not a whole hell of a lot else to do when the Big Cheese has rolled over dead. So improvise, improvise.
Yevette thinks I jinxed us by shooting the video and now we really are going to die. Uh oh. I figure, wtf, if it happens, it's written already. There's nowhere to go so kick back, smoke a bowl (she doesn't), and be cool.
Power is kicking in and out. Taking the kit down.
Note: I have no intention of dying and neither shall anyone around me. Thems the rules and they're not negotiable.
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