YouTube is one of those areas, that I’ve known for ages I should be getting involved with more, but up until last night I’d never had a presence up there.
That’s all changed though, with the arrival of my directorial debut – a short film full of emotion, intrigue and betrayal centering on the various avatar options available to PKR players.
I originally started off making the film using iMovie, which comes as standard with all Mac purchases. I got a bit frustrated with it though, especially with the rather rigid text tool so after a few recommendations from members on PAL, I switched to ScreenFlow, which I have to say I was quite impressed with. Its main purpose is to record actions directly from your desktop, but it also contains an editing suite which is fairly user friendly, even if it’s not hugely powerful.
If you own a Mac and you can’t justify spending a grand on Final Cut, then I’d certainly check out Screenflow – it’s worth a look. It’s not going to offer you the sort of power that full blown movie makers are going to want … but for short video clips on YouTube you don’t need that sort of power – just the kind of core functionality that Screenflow offers. If you’re interested, they do a free demo which gives you a good idea of how everything works.
So anyway, back to the video. There’s no real point to it, other than allowing me to get to grips with the Screenflow software. Most of the footage is recorded directly from my desktop, with the montage at the end being taken from a promotional video that PKR released a few years ago. The music was recommended to me by my girlfriend and comes from the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack.
Without further a do, here it is …
