We dropped them into the Timeline just like a still. We had some MP4 files from an Olympus E-PL1. Nobody seems to dare tackle things like ducking audio or transitioning from a still to a clip. When it comes to the Fotomagico documentation (and even reviews), you really don't learn very much. But we had a chance to test Fotomagico under Mavericks briefly and found no problems. We also expected the program to run under Lion, which is what our main machine is running. Although we didn't immediately appreciate just how. And Fotomagico does, indeed, meet the criteria (in fact, it surpasses them). We were looking, in short, for seamless integration of stills and movies while handling all the audio complications of a sound track conflicting with the movie audio. Handle any aspect ratio incompatibilities.Transition smoothly from still to clip and clip to clip. Duck any soundtrack volume under the clip's audio.Drop a clip into the Timeline as easily as a still.It was remarkably easy to do some sophisticated effects. We'd used Fotomagico 3 to build a slide show of stills, adding a little music, for a few memorial CDs. We remembered an old friend, a program we'd actually enjoyed making slide shows with. This, after all, was really just a slide show. We didn't have patience for the laborious tutorials or the surprisingly poor performance on a system that handles Premiere adroitly. You have to start from the Organizer, by the way. We'd have ended up with nothing more than the low resolution of a video file for all our work, after all.Īnd our vain hope the Elements would somehow make this easier was quickly dashed as we waited for it to wake up from each command we gave it. We didn't relish the idea of spending hours specifying pan and zooms in Premiere just to use a few seconds of video clips. But they make you work too hard, wait too long, fuss too much and give up in despair at the end. There are plenty of programs out there that promise to handle that sort of hybrid presentation. You do canvas prints, slide shows, full-length movies. Sure, you can burn a CD with the camera originals, but you're a professional. How do you deliver that, exactly? In an easily digestible form? And since it delayed our departure, we felt it would suffice to explain any delay in delivering the images we had captured, too.īut the problem is just that. That being the perfect way to leave a surprise party, she demanded we freeze while she retrieved her sister to tell her the joke. We tried to sneak away, in fact, but the imposing elder sister of our friend caught us and demanded to know if the honoree knew we were leaving. Naturally no one can wait to see what you've got. It took a lot of practice, we have to admit. But when the champagne glass is raised and order called for so the adoring spouse can give a toast - or, as in this case, introduce his wife so she can make her own toast - that's a clip.Īt the same time, we've developed the acrobatic finesse to shoot a clip with our right hand and toast with our left. The woman seated in front of you on her knees explaining how she did this or that for the party is best captured as a still in our book. The first image printed as the cover with a matching ribbon and case color. We've become aware of moments that should be captured as clips and moments best memorialized as stills.įinal Product. And so we had.īut how we shoot "events like this," as we call them, has changed a bit since God put movies into still cameras. It's one of the fringe benefits of our profession that we can attend events like this without troubling ourselves to wrap a present. In February we had driven down the coast a few villages to Half Moon Bay where, in a little seaside cottage, a very dear friend of ours (oh, let's just say a life-long friend even though we've only known each other since we were 17) was celebrating a surprise birthday of a certain impressive vintage. Whatever were we talking about? BACK STORY | Back to Contents This is what we live for, we cried to no one in particular. Enthusiasm is not the word you would have used if you could have seen us wrapping up the project.
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