Tag: Video

  • Silly Things To Do With Video Editing

    I’m working on a tour video for our three-person co-op Satisfactory game. I recorded the footage Tuesday night. (We took the week off for various reasons, so I used that time to let the Space Elevator shipment production accumulate a bit.) For lack of anything better to do and not wanting to actually Do Game Stuff without the others, I started a video project.

    Last night I completed the editing-down. Tonight I started the text overlay process, and decided I’d take this chance to learn something new (to me) in DaVinci Resolve: How to pin text to an object on the screen. Tracking, in other words.

    It’s a learning process, but for the sake of this one joke I feel like it was worth it:

    Yes, I used that garish color combination on purpose. I mean, why not?

    Mind you, I could have used a fancier method and achieved smoother, better-looking results. But for a quick throw-away joke? It’s fine.

    Hopefully I’ll have the full tour video up by the weekend.

  • Idle Hands, In Time Lapse

    Ingredients:

    • One (1) box containing many small plastic parts, some stickers, and instructions for assembling said parts into a model car.
    • One (1) tablet with a copy of Lapse It Pro installed.
    • One (1) tray table with lip to prevent plastic parts from sliding off onto the floor.
    • Two (2) hands with which to assemble the parts.
    • Five (5) hours of idle time on a Sunday afternoon.
    • One (1) copy of Adobe Premiere Essentials.
    • One (1) Blue Snowball USB microphone.

    Result: