Fantastic job, V6! Your presentation was truly engaging. Loved your visuals, your subject matter was really educational and thought-provoking, and you were just electric in front of your attendees. I have no idea if that contest at the end was planned or not, but either way, there was a really cool spontaneity to the way you communicated. That was absolutely a panel I wish I had attended.

On top of that, very cool job putting together that video. Your inserts made the lessons more clear and kept the visuals changing at a good pace. Nice zooms on the stills. Ken Burns would be proud.

Though I have to ask-- was all of that sound from the camera mic?

Edited completely in iMovie '09. Only annoyance was that in order for stills to be included, they had to be exported to iPhoto first, and an iPhoto album wouldn't be refreshed without a restart. The vignette, picture-in-picture, and Ken Burns effects are all default iMovie features, and very quick to implement.

Thanks for your kind words! I'd obviously have loved to have you there too, but such is life. I'm pleased I can share a recording at any rate. It was an absolute delight.

And yes, all the sound was the camera mic! I'd set up a Zoom H4 as well, but try as I might I couldn't make its recording sync up with the camera (it was a fraction of a percent slower, which is hard to fudge over 90-odd minutes) and I'd stupidly clipped the lavalier to my waistcoat, so it was a mess of clothes rustle.

The best audio came from the camera, so I maxed out the volume in iMovie, then imported the video into Garageband, and applied some compression and hiss removal. I love how integrated the iLife apps are; once I'd exported the video to the Media Browser from iMovie it was accessible in-place from Garageband, and I could export the final video from there.

Shame the start was so dark and blurry, but it was a ton of fun to do and I'm glad you enjoyed :)

That's really slick! I'm so used to using Final Cut Studio, Pro Tools and After Effects, all I could think when I was watching your video is just how fast you are with your editing suite. That's very impressive that there's so many good-looking effects so easy to implement like that, and with so much tight integration. If I tried all that with my setup, it'd take me a couple days. Maybe I'll have to install iMovie after all!

I'm going to hazard a guess that your Zoom was recording at 44.1k? The video camera should have been recording at 48k, and unless iMovie has got a smart SRC, that can lead to a lot of sound drift. There's also the potential pull-down issues synching to video, though you Europeans with your fancy PAL format shouldn't have to worry about that! (As an American, I'm constantly looking for 0.03% synch issues.) Either way, I do have a fancy SRC, so if you want, I'd be happy to try fixing that drift for you.

That blurry start just adds more mystery. It was still every bit as engaging without hard focus.

Gotta make sure I watch this when I'm home again. I totally forgot your sigs! DX

Tut tut! Shame on you! I'd have loved to see you there :)

But I've seen you running across me on sunday evening at the Asian restaurant next to the hotel :D

On Sunday I was heading home, so that would have been someone else! Though I was in there on Saturday, having a second social dinner with BP and his excellent crew :)

Ah, so it was Saturday ^.^;

Excellent presentation. :3 I'm pretty sure I've learned something, too. No one's ever really told me how to use imagery, or how to make it effective, just that it needs to be used. So I've no doubt been doing it all wrong these years. XD

You're only doing it wrong if it doesn't affect the reader the way you want it to. The point here was to expand your frame of thinking and help you understand what sort of decisions you make in your use of imagery.

That's just the thing: you made me realize how much I ought to be thinking about my writing. That alone can take it to the next stage.

Awesome, dude! Hope it helps :)

Makes me wish that more people would run panels this way. It was very well presented.

*tips hat* Thankee kindly. It was good fun to do!