As mentioned in the posting, I think that this project is going really well so far. I think the material of the project is awesome but it's a matter of getting the video quality to a point that will work on YouTube. I know that YouTube uses H.264 codec, but when I export my video using this codec it makes my video skip and lose frames: the same thing that happened in my Obama video for project 3.
I just bought Final Cut Express and have been using it to edit my video but it is pretty advanced. I am still getting used to the interface but will hopefully know enough by the due date to export it in the highest quality video for YouTube.
Also, I've Googled "Best quality video export for YouTube" and have had some various results. Some of them work really well, but are too small while others want the video to be exported using H.264 which seems to always make my video skip.
Anyway, I am rambling. I think my project will turn out the way I wanted and I am very excited to see what people think about it.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
More Thoughts of Project 4
Posted by John Thrasher at 8:48 AM
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I love the idea.
I could not get away from my Facebook after Obama won.. I kept refreshing to see everyone's statuses. It's very true.. There was an intense variety through them between absolute racist and hatred, to pure joy/hope. :-P
I'm excited to see it! I don't think I have any ideas for a "to do list."
I really liked this. People's facebook really interested me after the election. I like the way you took screenshots of all of them (I was also amazed at the sheer number of them, did anyone have a 'non-election' facebook status? I guess not. "Louie Olive is tired" is just to inflammatory I guess.)The thing I like most about your project is that it is collaborative, but it's unwillingly collaborative. These people had no idea they were going to be an English project, they were just expressing their true feelings. You really get at the heart of things when you do this, and I feel like this project does this extremely well. Of course we're not Nazis. We just have a new president. Truth is no one knows what's going to happen, but I feel like this project draws attention to the fact that some people say really dumb things driven by hate or disgust or sadness or whatever.
I like it a lot.
For your "to-do list" I would just say I think I would change the song. I really don't like Madonna. I feel like "My Way" by Limp Bizkit would be really, really funny because it's so ridiculous, and it would make the facebook statuses seem more ridiculous. But, the song is really your personal choice.
John, haven't looked at the whole video yet, but it looks excellent, a great idea. Amazing to me how Facebook has been such a productive source of material. Let me know if you still can't get the video to export. I think you should try a different computer? FCP is a pretty tough learning curve.
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