VIDEO: Seattle speaks from the heart

Thanks for the positive feedback!

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.
 
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This video has inspired me to want to produce more so if anyone has some good topics, I'd love to hear your input.

It's a great piece really good. It would be interesting to see different people talk about ron paul's stance on different issues and be made up into various videos. Then when you ask somebody what issues are important to them you could link them to the video which talks about that issue and they'd see lots of people's enthusiastic support of ron paul on that issue. Maybe even spice in some actual footage of the good doctor too to add emphasis.

Rock on guys!
 
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.

That camera is a frickin' ferrari...

I'm ebaying as we speak.
 
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