A very unexpected journey: the first 'true' edit!!

Hey!  What a day it was!  We have been anxiously awaiting this day since last week, as it was designated the day to create the test video with all the implements in place.  Those have been collected through blood sweat and tears over the last 6-9 weeks, and now we would find out if it would all work!

First, I did a 1+ hour film session of a Rivet Wars figure, since their Kickstarter is entering its final days.

Learning from past tests, I filmed in short 5-15 minute "bursts", rather than shooting very long "straight through" shots that lasted 40 minutes or longer.  This would prove to be even more helpful than I thought. At first, it was done to save on upload time.  It would create, in the end, some great opportunities for editing!

Here you see the video with one of the sound tracks.  Getting comfortable with the interface would be important, as I was very used to things like Photoshop.  This was more like working with one of my old 3D design programs.  It was bewildering at first, and it does not come with a printed manual!

In the end, we did do some tests in the other bands, such as the effects bar, etc.  Not as much this time around, as we didn't want to overwhelm ourselves!

I was fortunate that we didn't have to do any voice overs.  That really kept things more basic.

The shadowy figure there is Rich, who came over to lend his knowledge, and more of his original music!  Thanks Rich!!!!

Here we are viewing the edited video, to see what it looks like all together...

We shot this in HD, so the first render is taking about 6 hours!  I think we are a few hours into it now.  I will be making some more web friendly versions to put on the Rivet Wars kickstarter.  However, this is something that could be burned to a DVD, so if you Beta Testers might want a copy of this, just shoot me an  e-mail!  This has many of the principles I will be doing for the Shaded Basecoat DVD.  Obviously the video is not as long, and not one of the Raging herores figures, but it was pretty fascinating to watch!

It really did re-create the feel of one of our hobby seminars, which was the point!!!!  Yea!

Here's the kickstarter page:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/891905985/discover-the-painting-pyramid-with-james-wappel

Here is our crack editing staff...