Video Editing

VIDEO
Right now I've just finished working in Final Cut Pro to produce the video of Brandi Jessup.

I was very impressed with how easy it was to use Final Cut Pro. My professor let me use his camera to play my DV mini and capture it using FCP. Afterwards a fellow student who has done a lot of video editing showed me how to use the Razor Blade to cut segments out of my video.

Adding transitions is as easy as choosing which transitions you want from a drop down list under the "effects" tab then dragging and dropping them onto the segment you on which you want them.

So after chopping out all the frames that included me asking Brandi the questions and adding in transitions to make a smooth...well...transition from one segment to another I had a final product.

Now onto putting the video in my website.

I use Dreamweaver, so what I did was open the page I wanted the video on (in my case index.html). Now I am using div tags and javascript to move one screen while hiding the others when a button is clicked (that wasn't very clear, was it?) so you need to know that I drew my absolute positioned div in the place I needed it to be.

Next I clicked on the Common set of tools and chose the icon with the three shapes compiled together. It is the Media icon.

From this icon list I chose "Plugin" and then navigated to my video. The video uploaded and test fine.

THE PROBLEM
The Problem I am facing now is that I need a play/pause, stop, rewind, and fast forward button for the viewers to maneuver through the video. I got the grand idea of uploading the video to YouTube and then using the embed code from there to my video into Dreamweaver so that it'd automatically have the buttons.

The issue with doing this is that it is taking forever for my video to upload to YouTube and I have no idea why. I will report more later.

I'm going to try to upload the video here and see what happens...it is taking forever as well.

From reading a few articles I've discovered uploading video to YouTube.com (and Blogger.com) can take anywhere from 5-10 minutes and up to one hour.

And apparently I can't upload my video to blogger. I wonder why? We'll see how YouTube fares out...by the way, my video is a Quicktime .mov file.