The first movie I uploaded was my latest half-hour, CEFN Senior Gala Extravaganza – A Motown Review that I made for non-profit
Then I added Creating Fashion with Laurel: Fabric Shopping. Most of our episodes have been instructional videos, but this one works as
Not wanting to exclude my earlier efforts, I dedicated my free time this week to remastering The Plastic Club Rabbit Festival with Dreaming Thomas. I made that one in 2019 after a day of following my friends around The Plastic Club's annual
Now it looks like this:
The original version was edited in HitFilm Express. Since I now use Adobe Premiere Pro, I recreated my edit in Premiere using the orginal audio track as a guide to align all the clips. That was the
The fun part was applying what I've learned in the past couple of years to clean up the general quality. The color and audio are better now and some of the shakier shots have been stabilized. I also trimmed it by about four seconds to tighten up
The biggest difference is the suppression of a bird singing during Dreaming Thomas' performance of the Beatles' "I’ve Just Seen
Dreaming Thomas, original version
Dreaming Thomas, revised version
Next in my sights is remastering Big Mess at the Troc (also edited with HitFilm in 2019) and updating my demo reel, but I need to get back to working on Episode 13 of CFWL to make the PhillyCAM deadline. More of this after.