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This was supposed to be a collaboration. My partner and I were going to work separately, and then together, and then separately. The final stage was for each of us to produce a finished video and then send it to the other for another edit--no holds barred.

And then we would each upload separate versions at about the same hour. I thought it would be interesting.

Well, she wasn't crazy about the final blind edit idea. And then she decided she couldn't participate after all.

I did use the ideas she mentioned in our email correspondence, like the old civil defense footage. The collab that collapsed...

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Comment by SydTheSkeptic on August 26, 2010 at 8:10pm
Too bad the collab didn't come to fruition, but still, this is quite something.
It seems tech-intensive.

Can I ask, what editing program did you use?
Comment by Geoff on August 26, 2010 at 8:52pm
I use two programs (for now, I wanna learn another). iMovie 6 and PhototoMovie. PhototoMovie is a slideshow editor--it works with still images. I love it, it's a dream. I don't know anybody else who uses it because it really doesn't accomplish anything you can't accomplish in iMovie and it costs $40-50. But it is such a nice and clean way of working with stills and it's very easy to adjust the timing.

The thing I sometimes do with iMovie is layer transitions or effects on top of each other. Let's say you've got two 10 second pieces of footage. You can use the "overlap" transition and then output a single piece of footage that is, let's say, 16 seconds long. In the middle of that 16 second segment is 4 seconds of overlapped footage. Now you can trim down to that 4 seconds from either end or both. That allows you to mix a third overlap (or other transition) if you'd like to.

I'm assuming it's the Ad Council business, at the beginning and end, that looks technically challenging. But all I did was apply a rather stupid filter called N-Square to the single image of the Ad Council logo. That allows you to divide up your frame into identical fourths or sixteeenths or whatever you like. Then I exported the footage and fed it back into iMovie. And I would reapply N-Square to footage that had already been divided, overlap it with other generations of N-Squared footage, etc.

It sounds tedious, and it takes time on a slow computer like mine to export clips, but I actually enjoyed it because I was doing it all for the first time. I hope that makes sense.

I have the pieces ready of another video that does something similar using wipes. I'll finish that one up and post it 'cause I think it's simpler (also more elegant).
Comment by flophousepoodle on August 27, 2010 at 4:56pm
Those trees have always freaked me - then you made them dance.
The acid/hand sign and alligator - most of them, weird.
Really cool vid Geoff
Riot footage, cranes collapsing, enriched rice -
Comment by LtAdams2247 on August 27, 2010 at 9:13pm
Stupid Question
Comment by lima on August 28, 2010 at 7:32pm
Geoff, enjoyed. Really interesting concept, sorry it did not work out as plan, the final outcome is still very good none the less.
Comment by NatureJunkie on August 31, 2010 at 5:49pm
This is really impressive, Geoff, and very clever. I use iMovie 6 also, and I'm no where near this level with its editing features. You've made me think a little bit more about what I can do with it.

California passed a law in 1986, Proposition 65, which I misunderstood when I voted for it. I thought it would require that companies list toxic and carcinogenic ingredients on their product labels. Instead it prohibited businesses from knowingly exposing individuals to toxic substances without providing a clear warning. That means that virtually every store in California had to start posting a "Prop 65" sign, warning customers that there were substances in the store that could cause cancer.

The customers had to guess which ones. And I was one of the idiots who voted for that.

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