Ever thought of making a woodturning video? *LINK*

Mike does a good job

john lucas

Its the editiing I have trouble with. I had a computer crash last year and lost my Imovie. They put a newer version on and I've had trouble learning it so still haven't finished the video I started 2 months ago. One of these days I'll sit down and try again. I'm just not computer literate and the books have way too much information. Your looking for 1 paragraph to answer a question you have and the book is 500 pages long and you don't really know the terms to use to look up the info so me the books are useless. I have to rely in youtube videos done by teenagers who skip around a lot and leave out important information. Very frustrating.

Re: Mike does a good job

David Walser

I know where you're coming from. For many of us, I suspect that the best way to learn how to edit would be to assist with the video production a turning club. The club Mike belongs to posts video of their demonstrations to YouTube. I suspect that requires volunteers from the club to record and then edit the raw video and that experienced volunteers are willing to spend some time training willing recruits.

From such an opportunity, you wouldn't learn everything you might want to know for producing your own videos, but it would equip you with the basics. And, I suspect it would give you the vocabulary required to look up the answers to questions you might have. Absent such an opportunity, I don't know how most of use would be able to learn.

Re: Ever thought of making a woodturning video?

Alan Zenreich

There are many approaches to recording video.

My preference is to use a computer to switch cameras and record in real time. Then I can do any editing.

This type of setup also allows for live streaming of the video content while recording.

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Peter Hyde

John you can usually go back and install older versions of Apple software. iMovie has been my staple editing software for years and I hate where they've gone with it. Apple is great at advancing technology past the point of usefulness. I have wiped my 3 Macs clean and put OSX 10 back on them and also retro iMovie, iTunes and Pages and all the other good Apple software. No more upgrades to anything. I'm done!

I have 2 old Mac Power PC units I rely on for anything serious. All the email and web surfing gets done with a new iPad Pro which is now just about at the breaking point of usefulness, so will be mylast Apple hardware purchase. I've had need to call Apple support twice in the past 2 months and even their agents are bewildered by some of the new stuff in the latest greatest!

Just a sign of the times I guess for an aging population that is getting tired of change for change's sake.

Re: Mike does a good job

john lucas

Boy I hear ya peter. I just stupidly hit the update button on my phone and now I'm having to learn how to use it all over. I guess they change things just so they can keep a job and it seems like they are working.

Re: Ever thought of making a woodturning video?

mikeee12345

Remember when they said computers were going to make our lives easier and simpler.

You need to constantly train on new software and the hardware is constantly engineered

into obsolescence by the new software. The new hardware and software is usually not compatible

with the old applications being utilized by the owner. The new programmers totally ignore the design

functionality of the prior software and how it was used by the owner.

Re: Ever thought of making a woodturning video?

Alan Zenreich

Mike,

Computers let us make bigger mistakes... faster!