Movie Editing

So I continued to play with that video I did yesterday and it turns out Windows Movie Maker can't do all of the things I want to do. It can only do really simple stuff. Anyone know of any programs for movie editing that can? (see previous post for details)

Preparing for China

So one of my friends Brittany is going away to Iowa for med school and so a couple friends got together for a last hurrah. We had a lot of fun walking around town, going into stores and what not. When all the stores were closed though we had some real fun in the apartment trying on ridiculously high heels!

Why am I telling you this? Because I decided I was going to make a video for everyone to watch once a week while I'm in China! Pictures are great but there's something missing that a movie seems to fill. However, I want my movies to be very entertaining and therefore trimmed, edited, and all that jazz which I've never done before. So we took a video of my friend Allison strutting her stuff in some super high heels and I started playing with it! It really just looks like I added music but I guess that's how good videos are supposed to look - like you didn't do much to it. Anyway here's my first video edit!! :D

I have a lot to learn I know. The beginning is on time but the rest doesn't match the beat. I'll have to play with it more and learn all the tricks to really get it great. For the record, this is my new camera I'm using to film and I used Windows Movie Maker to do all the editing. Eventually, I want to be able to mix videos together and really make it "professional." That way I can film for a long period of time and then just cut to good parts and cut out me moving the camera and what not. Another thing I want to do is cut out voices or have music covering it but then have voices come back and loud enough for the viewer to understand... I'll probably need to learn how to add subtitles as well, I mean, it will be China. God, I have a lot to figure out...

Finally Coming Together

Summer is almost over and I'll be leaving for China in less than a month. It seems absolutely crazy that's August is practically here. I spent my summer worrying about a paper and money and enjoying it only a day a week- what a waste! At any rate I'm finally getting that paper done. I have the outline done I just need to read through my last book source and gather some quotes and key points and then I'll be able to write. I had planned on doing that here at Starbucks but the internet is looming and too big a distraction so I think I'll go to the public library and write. Maybe I can find my last source there since I couldn't find another at the school library.
It's raining. Of course it's raining! Just when I get my discipline in order life throws a curve ball.
Well anyway I had a great revelation with my therapist. Basically I should have remained an English major. I actually started out as a creative writing major because I wanted to be a novelist but then the school I was accepted at only had English so I became an English major. I was planning on focusing on that when people began to tell me that I couldn't be a novelist. Or rather just a novelist. I needed a "real" job because apparently you can't make a living as a novelist unless you're J.K. Rowling. So that became my focus which has been very difficult to focus on when I always have my stories looming in my head. She and I decided that I should finish college and then pursue that passion since it is, in fact, my passion. Funny how it took four/five years of therapy to be able to admit that my passion is something that I can't make a living out of.... believe it or not that right there was really hard. It's always seemed naive to say "I want to be a novelist" because it's one of the arts. Kinda like admitting I was interested in acting. Stacey has far more confidence in herself than I ever will. That interest has passed for me however; I know I need routine in order to function at my best and acting doesn't provide that. Writing, however, I can make routine.
At any rate, that was the big thing in therapy yesterday, which I haven't been in for a while.
Now it's stopped raining and I should get to writing that paper.