Real Men

Matt McCarthy...what a guy! He sent me an email that immediately got my head spinning with an idea for new audio on yesterday's Lazy Sunday video. I just finished and posted it at http://tiny12.tv/nbie4 so please check it out.

If you don't know Matt, check out www.themattstv.com. He's a very talented guy!

Lazy Sunday

Oh but the title does tell all! I started the day by finishing off the research for the interviews I have coming up this week. Did a little food shopping and then decided to relax. It was just so nice outside I decided to go hang by the pool. Then I thought...wait, bring the video camera. At first, I was going to video the dogs (seen in the background in some of the shots) but then decided to put a little something else together. The title is of course stolen from Chris Parnell and Andy Sandberg and, oh yea...I can't rap. Like it or not, here it is...

Tell Me How You Really Feel

So, I've written before about how Julie thinks I'm nuts with all this video stuff. Well, today I convinced her to help me put my latest creation together. She as totally against it until she saw what the idea was. When you see it, you will understand WHY she agreed to participate!

Enjoy and please share with your friends!!!

Not Easy!

Spent a lot of ours with this latest test. Downloaded demo compositing software and whipped the thing together so I could publish it. Have lots of issues that I need to figure out like why I lost alignment of the two videos when I did the composite. Going to take some time to dig into this further and decide if this inexpensive compositing package will do what I need (I think it will) and then run some further tests. Still need to decide what I'm going to do about a more powerful video editing package but, that will come next.

Oh yea, I still need to find a job! Latest vid is on http://www.12seconds.tv/channel/caracappa

When Good Ideas Go Bad

I don't know. There was a time a few years ago when I'd wake up in the middle of the night with what I thought was a brilliant idea or, something so urgent I couldn't afford to forget it. I'd scramble out of bed to write it down and then struggle to go back to sleep. In the morning I'd wake to find the note I'd written the night before was much closer to stupid than brilliant or, was something completely meaningless.

Since I've started with the 12 Second Movies (or Films as I'm trying to get myself to call them), I have ideas come and go all day long. I try to write most of them down and then play them out in my head to see if they will work. Today, I spent 4 hours working on what seemed like a brilliant idea, until it was done. Being nice, I'd say it was pure crap. I was tempted to post it anyway but, decided against it after watching for the 10th time.

I'm guessing this is a normal part of the process but, wow...talk about frustration. I was going to jump right into another idea and try to knock it out today. I decided against it. There's always tomorrow.

I need to think of ways to promote the viewing of these videos. If anyone who reads this blog has an idea, let me know. I try to let people know to share them so they become viral but, I think I need a little more of a bump. All your thoughts are welcomed!

I also realized today just how limited I am by the software applications I am using. If I'm going to stick with this I will need to invest. I'm not sure if I will go Adobe Premiere Pro and stick with the PC or, go Final Cut Pro and buy a Mac.