Back From China

3 weeks
35 pounds of camera gear
in a sling backpack
100 degree weather
100% humidity

resulting in

lost 3 pounds
~3800 photos
24 gigabytes

See Flickr for the shots as they trickle through my workflow.

Color Enhancement & Sharpening - Part 3

Part 3 covers the use of curves and shows a different type of curve fot the color enhancement.

This one is hosted on Google videos since Youtube has a 10 minute length limit. Sorry to those who have subscribed to my Youtube channel. I'll try to figure something out.

Part 3 is Crunching Away

I think I've figured out the keyframe zoom thing on Premiere. I find it easier to use the Effects Control window. I had thought that right clicking on the clips would get me to the right context menu, but that just led me down a rat hole.

Now it's crunching away, 9 more hours to go. The Camtasia editor computes faster, but the results are junk, as evidenced by part 1. Plus the Camtasia editor barfs after you get too many edit points in the project file. Memory leak!

Color Enhancement & Sharpening - Part 2

This was delayed due to issues with the Camtasia video editor. Apparently they don't support the features listed on the box. I did this one with Premiere. Sorry for the jerky zooms and transitions, I'm still learning.

Video Generation Troubles

I have run into some glitches in generating the videos.

It turns out that if you want to use any of the great features of the Camtasia editor, you end up crashing every 10 minutes. Camtasia has all the features you could want for this kind of work, but if you get to many edit commands in the project file, it gets unstable. Pretty nasty.

Their tech support has nicely said, if it hurts, don't do it. Bite me.