This was super cool!!! @glenalbrethsen
I am stunned. I don't care what you say, the effects are off the charts tome. I am intrigued by video editing, although, the only thing I do now is take them and hold them on a card. LOL
Not too worried as they are mostly everyday mundane things, but, I think I would like to tool around a little bit without having to go to college.I have been twice already and once for a lecture series. Stick a fork in me, I 'm done. :)
Well done and I really would love to see more!
Have a great day!
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Hey, @dswigle.
Well, thank you. Very nice of you to say.
The app essentially takes care of the effects as you're recording whatever the scene is, so depending on what it is, there might be nothing to do but make sure what you're recording works—the scene of the explosions hitting the driveway and even the car crash were basically recording just the driveway or the empty street—the app filled in the explosions and the cars.
For the teleporting that takes place in the beginning, the object needs to be there in the beginning then removed before the effect fades, so that's a bit trickier because there's not a whole lot of time to work with as far as the effect goes, and it essentially overlaps to takes, one with the object and then one without, while maintaining the same angle, distance, height, etc.
Video editing isn't really that hard, depending on what you want to do. It can get complicated if you need to add in things afterwards, like sound or visual effects. A lot of cheaper editors aren't equipped, for instance, to handle green screen, or shrinking or growing things that are normal-sized, all things I've needed to do in some of my more ambitious efforts.
So, anyway, with video editing, setting up as few shots as possible so that it's mostly about cutting for length is probably easiest, and for most "mundane" projects, probably the best.
Going back to college for me wasn't what I wanted to do, but it seemed like the only recourse at the time. The only thing worse than going in the first place was the feeling that I was essentially out of options.