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Swooning Over a Codec, I Can Edit Again

I AM ELATED.

My camera wouldn’t talk to my computer. How can I edit?

1 – the problem
2 – my computer couldn’t read the files on my video camera, they were trapped inside the camera
3 – the solution

** When buying a Sony video camera: Sony is proprietary. They try to make you use their software to get pics/videos off the camera.  Be prepared to use a work-around.

Do you even know HOW hard it is to find a video camera with a wireless lavalier microphone?

Nay impossible.

That’s why mine is so special.

Holy crap I love video editing.

I celebrated with ice cream.

 

 

Just a Minute – What Video Editing Looks Like

It’s really coming along, and I cannot WAIT to show you this one… some of my best work yet.

Here’s the other part of what video editing looks like… a LOT of files:

My computer’s Finders keep crashing (both in the last 10 hours).

Below is the Final Cut file for the above video, ha.

You know when that happens… when like, everything accidentally lines up perfectly, your fingers freeze over the keys, you slowly go Command-S, back away from the keyboard, hands over head.