Morgans wrote:

"stol" wrote

Hi Jim. This is exactly the feedback I was looking for. My gut feeling
is that I should re edit the video and leave some more space in some
of the shots to answer those and more questions.



You could freeze a frame when you are looking at the appropriate area of
the plane or engine, and add some narration. I don't know how to do
that, but I know it can be done.


That would be very noticible.
Video looks bad still frame.

If it's a steady shot, a short clip could be copied and stuck in place.

Or...
For some stuff, yes, but if you add too much, some people would turn it
off. Ya' gotta' entertain 'em! g You could make a chart with the
specs and graphs, like a power point, and import it to the video as it
renders. Or you could make a large legible chart and video it
directly. The advantage is that you could point to some stuff with a
big pointer, if you wanted to call attention to things on the charts.

This would be an excellent approach.

BUT...
I can tell you all that this video stuff is alot harder then it looks
on TV.. ;~)..


Too right.

The next step is a video editor.
But this is a big step.
It will take many hours of your time to learn the programs before
anything useful happens.
Then lots more hours actually making the movie.

Cutting up the source into separate scenes.
Adding "information scenes" - basically still pics of a text file,
spreadsheet, still photographs, other video clips, etc.

Rearranging to suit. a few times.

Then you get to completely re-do the voice over - a few times.

It's kinda like building an airplane, you don't really ever get
finished, you just reach the point where it's as finished as it's
going to get.


I use ULead's VideoStudio 7 - because it was the hot setup when I
started playing with this stuff a few years ago. There are probably
other/better? programs available now.

A Windows box will need 2 to 4 GIG of memory and 10 times that in
disk space to do anything useful to video.

Like I said, it's a big step.

But it you really want to edit video, it's the only way.


Richard

BTW, I'm still very impressed with what you have done so far!
IT really is a hell of a piece of work.

And, like Jim suggested upstream, it could easily (Well?...)
be turned into a major book on auto engine conversion.