This might sound a bit strange - but I've just started to really watch & scrutinize my recordings for my how to & instructional videos - before sharing them. Earlier I relied a bit more on my gut feeling ("did I do well?") and edited some parts I more or less knew about, but left the rest. 📼✂️
#NewJersey Gov. Phil Murphy has signed into law legislation allowing 17-year-olds to vote in state primaries if they'll be 18 by the next general election.
Fun fact: the nonprofit arm of @Action2getherNJ, ATNJ Ed Fund & Ex Dir Uyen Khuong advocated hard for this law. I’m also proud to have donated my #editing time to work with fab ATNJEF volunteers on the nonpartisan NJ Civics Handbook for teens (& a great resource for all NJ #voters).
In 2024 we’re fundraising to print/mail copies to all NJ 17yos who will qualify to #vote in their first election in Nov: http://tinyurl.com/mprcb8hr#GOTV
Any video editors out there interested in contributing to an open source project? Fedora would like to do more with our YouTube channel, but our marketing team members don't have the skills or time to make it happen.
We're primarily looking to edit clips out of previous conference or podcast content because it's so easily buried.
I am peer reviewing a lot of #poetry and #prose for a #literary magazine, and I have to say, by FAR the most common issue with these pieces is self-indulgence and a failure of #editing
Lots of writers have fresh perspectives, brilliant passages, fantastic evocative images... but they just can't resist wrapping them in weaker language, exposition, clumsy sense-making, etc.
If they trusted their readers more, and cut their writing down to the bone, these would be gold.
If there is anything out there on the interwebs that could fairly be characterized as:
The Absolute Idiot's Guide To Video Editing, And How To Teach An Old Dog To Do It When He Has Never Done Anything Like It, Preferably Using Best-In-Class FOSS Software Tools Which Are Herein Handily Identified For His Convenience
... it would benefit me for such resources to be made known.
Thank you!
(Boosts for a wider lazyweb search highly appreciated)
Some things I checked in my last copyedit:
-song lyrics (as in listening to the actual song)
-spider anatomy (ew)
-whether certain planets are aligned on a future date
-whether said architect designed X
-Japanese names
-math
I'm looking for a #Motion or #FCPX generator that would create sort of Plexus-like lines, neuron-like structures ideally with light pulses, paid or free.
Any ideas? I haven't found anything like that for Motion. I need to use it on a lot of shots in a FCPX project and have it somewhat controllable from FCPX, otherwise I'd just do it myself in After Effects and render as video.
In my email newsletter today, I wrote about the plural of "hippopotamus" (inspired by the song "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas").
The word comes from Latin where the plural is "hippopotami." But when words come into English, we often eventually treat them like English words and add "-s" or "-es" to make them plural.
Scientists still use "hippopotami," but most other people use "hippopotamuses." Of course, "hippos" is an option too! 🦛