Just finished a long, grueling project. Since June 2018, (eight months ago) Charlene and I have been putting together a video of our trip to Egypt, Israel and Jordon. Our brother, Charlie produces a video of all his trips and it takes him a day or two. Ours took longer in part because we had no idea how to go about it.
First Charlie told us what program to use and we bought it. And it took awhile to figure out how it works. Charlie was a great help with that. But what took the longest was making all our pictures tell a story. We used pictures from several cameras and at least one of them had the date set wrong, so we couldn't use the dates on the pictures to put things in order. And we were trying to balance the length (33 minutes) against telling the whole story.
We put captions on most of the pictures so viewers would know what they were looking at. and we set it to music. Choosing, buying, downloading and inserting the music where we wanted it was hard work. And we wanted to avoid abrupt breaks when the music changed from one tune to another. I know it still doesn't sound like it should have taken eight months. I guess you would have had to be there. But it is a great flick - educational and entertaining. I'll try to figure out how to put it where you can see it.
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