Olympic Swimming

Untitled from oaa gw on Vimeo.

For this project, we have put a You tube video by Eduardo B08 into AVS Video editor, and cropped it to match the music by the Arctic Monkeys (fluorescent adolescent), which we also had to crop to as smoothly as possible repeat itself, and then read with read over the top of this our script on Olympic swimming, the records and record holders, the history, the technology, with a bit on how the Olympic swimming is set up thrown in there as well. To record, we used an expensive microphone lent to us by a friend, up until the final section where we weren’t able to use it, so it was instead recorded on an iPod. Put on top of this are some words to visually illustrate the key points being mentioned in the script, hopefully in time with the words as they are said.
I already had the Video editor before the project was set, but had never used it and saw it as an ideal time to learn how to use it. The swimming idea was simple enough to come up with as both of us are keen on swimming ourselves and instead of talking about the amateur level that we are at, why not talk about the best of the best? AVS Video editor is straight forward to use, it is easy to get the hang of as everything is very intuitive, you simply drag the selected object to where you want it.
Because I am using the inactivated version, a watermark is placed on top of the video for certain parts of the video. To get around this I placed a minute of blank for the first and last minutes of of video to avoid parts of the watermark. To crop this blank from the final video, I put it into handbrake, another piece of software I already had which edits the video, but doesn’t put a watermark on top as well. Again I hadn’t used this and so ended up googling how to actually trim the video but soon found a questions forum that held the answer.
After that I then posted on vimeo, a video posting site that I had not used before but had been recommended by a number of friends and wanted to try out. Just in case something did not work while uploading to vimeo, I also signed up to you tube (Yes I know, I didn’t yet have a you tube channel ) and posted it there as well. From there I imbedded the video in my blog made on blogger.