Saturday, March 29, 2008

Open Media Project

I am excited about the Open Media Project. I had a few ideas for it, but finally decided on doing a video clip. I was inspired by the numerous pet videos on YouTube, so I think making one of my own would be an interesting experience.

To make a video, of course I would need a video camera. In case anyone needs one, College Library can loan one to you for 3 days at a time. If you intend to keep the physical copy of the MiniDV tape, you would need to buy a tape to replace College library's.

Then I need a pet to videotape. Getting a cat to cooperate for a video is near to impossible. He stops whatever he's doing to stare at me whenever I turn the videocam on. So now, I have a large deal of footage featuring a cat staring at the camera and not moving.

However, I think the hardest part is editing the footage to piece together a video. I haven't exactly started on that yet. I tried using iMovie, but it's challenging for someone who doesn't know her way around a mac. Does anyone know of any easy-to-use video editing program that can be used on a PC?

2 comments:

Steve said...

What's your theme?

Chris said...

I've used Pinnacle Studio in the past to edit video. It's very user friendly and simple, but its pretty prone to having a lot of bugs. Unfortunately, I don't know of any easy free video editing programs. Good Luck!