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Scott Martin
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iconnumber posted 08-20-2016 11:56 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scott Martin     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I believe I may have enough video tools to edit and add video from your phone to add to your post.

If anyone wants to try sharing a "video walk through" of some of your collection or an interesting item then please let me know.

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iconnumber posted 08-29-2016 06:50 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for doc     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Love this idea!

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Scott Martin
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iconnumber posted 08-31-2016 08:55 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scott Martin     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
doc

Have you a video to share with us?

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asheland

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iconnumber posted 08-31-2016 10:36 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for asheland     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Scott, I have a brief video on my Youtube channel (same name as here) of one of my Gorham pieces. You are welcome to capture that video and post it here if you'd like.
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Scott Martin
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iconnumber posted 08-31-2016 01:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scott Martin     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks asheland

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Polly

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iconnumber posted 08-31-2016 05:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Polly     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That is great! I love that!

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asheland

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iconnumber posted 09-01-2016 12:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for asheland     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks Polly!
And thank you Scott for posting it! smile

At some point, I'd like to make more videos of other pieces in my collection. When I do, I'll let you guys know.

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ahwt

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iconnumber posted 09-01-2016 08:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ahwt     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That is great. Thanks for sharing. Do you have a video camera?

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iconnumber posted 09-01-2016 08:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for doc     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I don't have a video yet, but I would like to try putting one together, and I would love to see others' videos as well.

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iconnumber posted 09-02-2016 09:39 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for asheland     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I shot that video with a simple iPod. My new iPhone 6S does even better video than that!
It's very convenient. smile

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Scott Martin
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iconnumber posted 09-02-2016 10:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scott Martin     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Videos can be made from a series of still photos.

The example below is someones else's poor photos animated into a video. I added the titles and music.

So if you have a series for photos you want to make a film of and add your own narration/music, we can do this. smile

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iconnumber posted 09-02-2016 01:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for asheland     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I like that video with the pictures. That works well.

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Scott Martin
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iconnumber posted 09-02-2016 01:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scott Martin     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
So who wants to make a video?

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iconnumber posted 09-02-2016 03:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scott Martin     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
A small test ...

I took a bunch of photos from ahwt's SSF Photo Gallery. Edited the music into a longer file.

awht Photo Montage

Another thing I tried is about 2.5 minutes in. I added a caption for the ribbon puller.

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ahwt

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iconnumber posted 09-03-2016 12:22 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ahwt     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Scott I have no idea how you did that, but it is really fun. Thanks for pulling all the pictures together with a great soundtrack!

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iconnumber posted 09-03-2016 11:50 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scott Martin     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This is a learning experience for me and most everyone at the SSF.

So please make suggestions.

For example, June's first two comments about the awht Photo Montage was she really liked it but it was too long and needed to be edited down.

She then said get to work on doing the Great Faces video. My first rough draft which includes most of the 200+ faces; for about 7 seconds each; was about 20 minutes long.

If there are members who would be interested in helping with lots of suggestions and creative suggestions/directions that would be most welcome. Perhaps this would be best done in a private forum?

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iconnumber posted 09-03-2016 05:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ahwt     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The video did not seem that long to me because I could think about who we brought the item from, when we brought it, and the parties or occasions when we used it. For me the video was a friendly retreat into the past.

For others the series of pictures should stand alone as the viewer will not have any memories of the items. It should have a storyline that produces some emotion in the viewer so that they look with anticipation for the next picture.

The great faces thread could have laughter or maybe even fear as one of the hoped for results. There may be enough pictures to choose from so that each picture builds on last one or somehow connects with the last picture.

Telling a good story seems to me to be the hardest thing in this life to do.

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iconnumber posted 09-04-2016 12:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scott Martin     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
    Telling a good story seems to me to be the hardest thing in this life to do.

So true!

This is why we need many voices when preparing a good video.

Great characters, great actors, great directors, great story boarding, great producing, great tech amounts to nothing without a good story and good writers.

I'll count you as the first voice but we need a team...so who's next to join the team?

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Roger Nevling

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iconnumber posted 09-05-2016 10:01 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Roger Nevling     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This is a great idea, I enjoy seeing others collections and would love to share some of my items as well. I would hope that if you move this into a private forum that everyone would have access. I am not sure how I could help but I have enjoyed everything I have seen so far. It would be nice to have some videos that would be educational as well about a certain item or time period, etc.
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iconnumber posted 09-05-2016 11:06 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scott Martin     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The private forum would be to keep the creative back and forth (aka BlaBla) about video development out of the public view but once the video was finished we would share.

Decades ago (before the first IBM PC) I was a TV Producer/Director/Production manager for the networks. Depending on the creative team it can require a lot of back & forth discussion before the production outline/storyboard comes together. Since the discussion will about making a video and not directly about the silver in the video it would most likely be best out of sight for those who are not actively participating in the creative process.

And since many things have changed over the years for me and also I expect for most SSF volunteers it will be a totally new experience, this will result in much back and forth that is not exactly about silver.

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Roger Nevling

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iconnumber posted 09-06-2016 05:30 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Roger Nevling     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks Scott that makes sense. Very interested to see what comes of this.

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iconnumber posted 09-07-2016 10:16 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scott Martin     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What will come of this is not much if others don't participate.

I've learned a couple of basic editing tools.... I was learning how to use a more advanced tool but I put this on hold because the creative/production support doesn't seem to be here. Perhaps I'm being my impatient self and everyone is away for Labor day/vacation?

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iconnumber posted 09-11-2016 02:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scott Martin     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
If any of the authors of the following will audio record the text in these slide presentations then I'll convert the slide presentation into a movie.

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iconnumber posted 09-12-2016 04:44 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for agphile     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I would need to work out how to do it. My computer spends nearly all its time with the sound switched off and I don't know how to set up the microphone thingy.

Also, looking at it, I think the text needs re-writing to catch up with later knowledge so yes, I'm prepared to give it a go, but it will need to wait until I can find a bit of time.

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iconnumber posted 09-12-2016 09:32 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scott Martin     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks.

A microphone directly connected to your computer will most likely sound best. Polly used her phone to record the bell sounds so you may be able to do it with your phone as well.

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iconnumber posted 09-12-2016 10:39 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Polly     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Although I love this idea, I'm a bit too microphone-shy to record a voice narration.

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iconnumber posted 09-28-2016 10:22 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scott Martin     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
FYI

I just scanned a period of 4 hours of our logs to see if anyone was viewing the videos. We had video viewers from these locations:

  • California
  • Florida
  • Missouri
  • New Jersey
  • New Jersey
  • New Jersey
  • New Jersey
  • New York
  • South Carolina
  • Texas
  • Virginia
  • Virginia
  • Virginia
  • Washington

Each of the above are unique computers. So in NJ we had 4 different unique users.

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