This little video has started to take on a life of its own and I'd like to thank everyone for the feedback and comments.
I was at a small Seattle Meetup yesterday where we made stencils and banners. There were only about 10 of us at the Meetup and I happened to have a video camera in my car from a job I did the day prior so I thought, "Let's shoot some interviews and see what happens."
We spent about 20-30 minutes interviewing all of the members who attended our Meetup activity. I was caught off guard without any lighting control so we made the best of the location and used all natural light.
Zeus is my dog and he is a big fan of Dr. Paul. I think its because I take him to every Ron Paul Meetup event that I can and I always say "Let's go support Ron Paul." So he now get's excited at any mention of Ron Paul's name!
For those interested, I shot direct-to-disk (no video tape) using a JVC HD-110U Pro HD camera with a an HD-100 Firestore unit (hard drive).
Since I shot only about 15-minutes of total footage, the editing was really easy.
We used a shotgun microphone connected wirelessly to the video camera.
For editing, I plugged the camera's hard drive via a firewire cable into my computer (no digitizing!) and used Final Cut Pro to edit the clips. It took about an hour to assemble the clips and do the titling.
Then I converted the edited piece into a Windows Media Video (.wmv format) and uploaded it to YouTube.
The secret to good quality is getting a high quality Windows Media Video file and optimizing the compression settings, bitrates and codecs prior to uploading it to YouTube.
I hope that answers all the tech questions.
This video has inspired me to want to produce more so if anyone has some good topics, I'd love to hear your input.