Friday 27 July 2018

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I'm now an international movie producer!

Having spent about twenty years writing articles for the web that no-one reads, in November last year I finally made the transition to producing videos for YouTube… that no-one watches. So far these all revolve around retro gaming (Amiga-based mostly) and often its connection to the movies.

I started out translating my written articles to audio using a text to robot voice synthesiser, without necessarily synchronising it with the video, though now record my own voice-overs and ensure the two elements complement one another. I'll let you decide if it's an improvement or not. ;)

I've learnt a lot in the last nine months or so, the biggest lesson being... never ever use entry level free video editors (I can't vouch for the high-end pro ones). For projects more complicated than a single video track with a single audio track they're rarely fit for purpose, and even then they tend to fall over in the wind. You'll read glowing reviews of some of them online… written by top 10 compilers who have only spent five minutes playing with each editor before deciding they're awesome. I'm sure half of these lists exist purely for click-bait purposes.

Secondly, if you're editing video via Linux, stop it now. If there's one thing Linux spectacularly fails at delivering, it's a means of editing video… without being pushed to the brink of insanity. I could go on, but the memories are too painful, and therapists are expensive.