Down The Rabbit Hole
If you could read my mind you’d probably need therapy soon after. It’s pretty messy in there. For example, a colleague recently complained about using iMovie to make his music videos. The problem had to do with syncing sound with the video and he had run into a glitch that I had never heard of. (I won’t bore you with the details.) So I told him that we should get together at some point and work toward a solution.
I found the problem intriguing and have been thinking about it (on and off) for a couple of weeks. So I’ve spent some time looking at alternative production techniques in hopes of coming up with a miracle solution. Then I can come riding in heroically on a white horse and…..well you get the idea.
Yesterday I spent a couple of hours on YouTube (The University of YouTube?) watching different how-to videos hoping to find an answer. Surprisingly I haven’t found any that reference that specific problem so I’m going to need to ask him some additional questions. But I did come across a couple of points made that may hold the key. We’ll see.
Now it’s important to understand that artists (especially musicians) are nearly always broke so the fix needs to be cheap. Free would be best. But then, nobody wants to pay for anything anymore so there is that….. That’s why so many of us use GarageBand and iMovie. These programs are very good and come free with our Macs.
A couple of the videos referenced a video editing program called DaVinci Resolve so I looked them up online and discovered that there are two versions. The first one is free and the second is only $300. Apparently the second one is a go-too tool for many major Hollywood studios. (who knew?) But the free one is amazing and has features that are generally found in some very expensive software.
So then I went back to YouTube to watch how-videos for this program. There is so much that can be done that the learning curve seems quite steep. But, as I’m watching the first tutorial (over 40 minutes long), my mind starts to imagine the various ways I could use it for myself. I started to imagine putting together many different types of projects. I was, and am, quite inspired.
Maybe I should get a decent camera (used of course). So I made a trip to ebay to see what was available. I also know that I would need a decent set of lights so I checked into that too. And if I’m going to get all of that maybe I should consider turning our spare bedroom into video studio. I would probably need a new computer dedicated to just media production.
As my head reeled with the possibilities and my imagination went head-long down the rabbit hole another quiet thought infiltrated the chaos. Maybe I should just turn off my computer and go practice my guitar.
I can refer you to a decent shrink if you need.
