Monday, November 06, 2006

BIG CHILL VID - at last...

Ok, so It's taken me a while... Really it's because I've been striving perfection. What I have in fact come up with, is, I am sad to say, not my best work.

As a sound person I am deeply ashamed of the soundtrack, but YOU try editing in iMovie with a consciousness of sound quality! You've got to export it into a better audio editor so that you can do the most BASIC things, but in order to do so you are forced, in a very, very annoying manner, to export it under a fixed range of settings, ALL of which are set at "medium quality sound". Sucks ASS!

I cringe everytime I see a little blue bar crossing before me with the word "Converting..." under it, followed by a very similar blue bar with the words "Compressing movie..." beneath! This poor soundtrack has been through this process a few times.

The appalling tweety bird loop was also an in-iMovie edit. I wash my hands.

And worst of all, although this is somewhat representative of the Big Chill experience, there are no photographic records of the very best bits! Ed is entirely missing from the video record, but he really was there, promise. And the SUPER-BEST bits, climbing the oak tree with a bottle of whisky (and a number of other things),walking (seeming) miles up a (seeming) mountain to go swimming in the quarry. And it looks like it was overcast all the time, but actually we had some fantastic sunshine!

And, yeah, like, it's a bit long, and you probably really did have to be there, but hey, here it is.