Ag least the major portion of the migration from the iMac 24 to the 27 inch model. Ill have an update on that whole fiasco probably on Monday or Tuesday. Suffice it to say, I am now running on the new machine.
Did a shoot on Thursday evening and am in the middle of a personal project which I'll get into later so other than that I am just finishing up a little Christmas shopping. I did find this on a friends Facebook post and chased it down on YouTube so I could imbed it here in the blog. If you are a fan of the movie Despicable Me you will really like it and if you have not you need to rent is and have a laugh.
Hope you enjoyed it. Have a great weekend and I'll cya Monday... DOug
A week or so ago I did some product photography for a project my wife was doing at church. They really only needed a picture of a shoebox stuffed with clothing items. After taking the time to set up the lights and stuff, I could not leave it alone with a simple one shot deal.
I did a number of them with the box open, stuffed, and then closed. Then using the images I brought them into Keynote and did a slideshow and finally a video of the whole thing. Keynote does not attach audio very well and will not export to Youtube directly, so I dropped it into Photomagico. After all is said and done we ended up with a little shoebox ministry promotional video. Here it is.
It's been busy, I took Earth Day off to enjoy some down time. Did pretty much nothing but couch potato with our dog Sniper. We must both be missing mom while she is in Maryland.
I have been working on and off on a project for our church. I took a bunch of shots during the Easter service and went through them. I was asked last week if I could put together a video of them. Of course I was on the road and it would have to wait until this week. So today, well if you look at the blog time it was actually yesterday I really got into it. Here is the YouTube version, I'll explain the process on the other side.
I used the 5D Mk II as I knew I was going to be shooting natural light. The lens of choice was the EF 28-105 f/4L IS USM. This is a great lens but the f/4 does limit some options when shooting indoors. Fortunately shooting at ISO 3200 and some at 6400, the noise slider in Lightroom took care of it. One thing I did do was shoot in RAW S1 which produces a 10 megapixel file rather than 23-28. That just makes it nicer all around. Less storage space, less work while processing in Lightroom.
Once I had the files selected I exported them into a folder I have named FotoMagico after the slideshow program from Boinx software for the Mac. I really like this program. Once in PhotoMagico I just selected the images and dropped them on the timeline in the order I wanted using a default slide time of 4.2 seconds. This makes it easier later when you have to match the sound track. The programs weak spot is with the Ken Burns effect. Overall it does a great job on landscapes but it goes a little wonky with portrait oriented images. Then there are images that lead to the next slide and have to be positioned correctly to make it work. That was a little time consuming. With sequencing, timing, and transitions complete, I dropped the music and found the Ken Burns effect to be too large of movement for the sedate nature of the song. So another hour went into adjusting and testing those slides.
Finally I was off to Garage Band. For those in the Windows world, this is a program that comes with every Mac and has grown into quite a music editing application. Ok so its not ProTools or anything like that but it does a really good job. The music was dropped onto one track and an mp3 copy of the preachers sermon was on another. Looking at the preacher slides, I had 48.2 seconds to fill with speaking. I had to play with it a little so I added the Jesus Rap effect. Ok it is a little dorky but it was getting late and I was alone. The slide of the preacher is at 1 minute and 14 seconds and this is the point where I dropped the music track way down but still audible during the speaking. With the audio track complete, I just had to save it to iTunes, put it in a playlist that I set up for the project and then drop it on the single audio track in PhotoMagico.
Then the exporting began. One to an mov format, another to DVD and burn it in Toast. Those are each 814 MB. The really cool thing in PhotoMagico is it will save the format to YouTube and upload it for you. You do need a YouTube account but that is free.
Guess we will see how it goes over on Sunday as it will be shown to the church. Ug!
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