my first promo vid for street

[Evan Young]

A lot of the clips in this are shakey, and my costume looks like sh**. I'm much better with my costume now then I was when the clips were shot two years ago. I'm hoping to get better footage this summer. But what do you think otherwise?

http://homepage.mac.com/globalevan/video/iMovieTheater36.html

it's a big file. sorry I couldn't figure out how to make it smaller

[scot]

Editing is the name of the game. Cut out the things that don't help you get hired.

The music has a good energy, but the video doesn't. It's slow. Put more jokes and less still images. Add more things that set you apart like your personality. If you're better than competing acts in some aspects, push those. If you're not, get better.

Don't worry about the costume stuff, showing that you're confident, funny, and entertaining are more important.

Some of the jokes are hard to understand. Not just because I'm an idiot, but also because I'm deaf.

Some of the quotes are too long. Only include enough words to make it clear. use "..." The idea is to put little parcels into the mind. People can't flash remember full paragraphs. They remember things like "The quicker picker upper"

[scot]

i remember when we were playing with the catapult thing in Venice.

[Frisbee]

I tried to open it on multiple computers, but was only able to get sound and no video...
Do I need to let it load fully for the video to come thru?
Usually not...I could see your catapault juggling no problem.

I tried on I.E. and Firefox...

[Doctor Eric]

I'm having the same problem.

[le pire]

I have a souped up mac and it I have the same problem...


iMovie is not what you want to use for a promo video.

Final Cut, baby.


etienne

[Evan Young]

I used final cut.
I don't know what's wrong, it worked for Scot. I'll re-post it tomorrow

[le pire]

yeah, and when you repost it, reduce the file size. Easy enough to do in final cut.


etienne

[Evan Young]

http://homepage.mac.com/globalevan/video/iMovieTheater36.html

try it again. it's working fine on my computer and my girlfriends dell. maybe it was just having some issues for a while today.

the file is about 75megs. it's the second lowest setting in quality I could save it as.

[Evan Young]

nevermind. I'm going to try somthing diff

[Evan Young]

http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileSharing.woa/wa/default?user=globalevan&templatefn=FileSharing35.html&xmlfn=TKDocument.35.xml&sitefn=TKSite.6.xml&aff=consumer&cty=US&lang=en

you can download it from here, should be less likley to mess up.

it's 75 megs, and that's the second lowest quality setting available in final cut express.

[gav]

75 megs ! you're joking right ?
you should get it down to 7.5meg if you want people to view it online or download it. Even that would be considered big.

[scot]

you should have preset options such as download for modem/ download for dsl / download for T1

or if you can change all aspects, make the picture size smaller, make it 15 frames per second, make it low quality picture, 8 bit mono sound.

[Evan Young]

I'm not puting it on the website anytime soon for general public download. It's DVD via mail only for a while.

[Frisbee]

I still can not open more than the sound...I tried to download the whole thing thinking that is it is a big file maybe it needed to have the whole thing intact to be able to open it.
when it finished downloading to my computer it said it had a compression problem and could not open the video portion of the file.

Strike two...

I want to see your video...but after three strikes I will stop trying until it is confirmed fixed.

[Evan Young]

dang, I have no idea what the problem is, so fuck it. I'll make a new video this fall and try again then.

[Frisbee]

sorry evan...maybe one day this summer I will meet up with you and I can see your show.

In fact I will be in your area for the first week of July performing a summer concert series in Agawam...

[Evan Young]

I won't be here in July. by june 1st I will be out of this area for good!

[Frisbee]

Going global are you??

[Magic Mickey]

I can't get it to work on my mac. I'm no computer expert though so it my just be my computer.