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8 Jun 2008 Tester video entry
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If you can't watch the video above, you can read what I said in the video below:
Hi this is Grax and I'm doing a little tester video entry.
Now I wanted to do something a bit more than just 'record myself on a digital camera and then upload it onto the Internet'. But the only video editing software that I do have is the Movie Maker thing you get with Windows XP. However I do have Adobe Flash. And I know how to use Adobe Flash.
So I thought I'd mess around with it and see what I can do.
I can import for video into it, edit it and export it out as a flv, which gets accepted by YouTube, Facebook and other bits and places like that. So that means I can create... potentially create all sorts of effects like drawing things on the screen, putting text to the screen, and of course... I can add music.
Now there's two main reasons why I wanted to do this. The first reason is I was doing a search on my video entries on Google and I did "advance", "hair", "studio" and "grax". And lo and behold my YouTube entry got turned up on some other random site. I dunno what it was. I'm guessing it was some collaboration site. The trouble was there was no immediate way upon it to see who I was or how to get to my website. So from now for all new video entries I'm going to be adding a kind of watermark so you can link to my address.
The second reason is regarding my new years resolution I made at the start. Now I said I wanted to play around a bit more with Flash and one of the ideas I had was to create Flash blog entries (or Flogs as I named them). Now the trouble was I kinda quickly realised that this would require a lot of time and effort and I had neither of those (certainly in the case of motivation). However I can do video entries and such. Now I can do that I can essentially churn them out. It's quick, it's simple to do and I can do all sorts of Flash effect on them (if this works). So I'm killing two birds with one stone as it were. I'm keeping up my side of the bargain and I trying to keep it a bit more entertaining.
So this is my tester entry in the world of video blogs. And I think it turned out OK.
Edit: Oooh, turns out you can export things in Flash as an avi file anyways. No flv malarkey for me. Awesome.
Posted at: 15:40 PM
Your Thoughts
MICHELLE said on Sunday 8th of June 2008 at 05:22:35 PM
I seriously doubt I'll learn anything as I have the retention of an 85 years' bladder, but ya done good.
Although the white eye thing ... creepy.
DEB said on Thursday 12th of June 2008 at 06:50:48 PM
YAY! I loved it! I have to admit, I am totally memorized by your eyes!!! WOW! (Not the white out version of course...eh-hem!) But, I LOVE making videos too, but not as advanced as you are probably. I do editing and put music in and try my best with stuff, but how do you make those little writings like graffiti on your screen? Adobe flash player in conjunction with Movie Maker? I gotta learn more.
Here's my Youtube account: http://youtube.com/user/dtrantblogspot
Looking forward to seeing new videos from you now!
Oh, and I responded to your question. :)
GRAX said on Friday 13th of June 2008 at 08:53:25 AM
@Michelle: Oh I know how much you adore my freaky eyes. Even if they've been badly coloured in white. ^_^
@Deb: The fun thing about using Flash to mess around with videos is that you can create another layer on top of the layer the video's on and do all sorts of stuff. Kinda like using Paint on a video.
One disavantage however is that the quality of the avi gets degraded a little bit when you export it out of Flash. Also I'm not sure how much editing freedom you have in Flash compared to Movie Maker. I'll have to have a proper play with MM to decide.